Wallis, Jennifer (Author)
History of Psychiatry
Volume: 28
Issue: 3
Pages: 297-310
Publication date: 2017
Language: English
The sphygmograph, an instrument to measure and visually chart the pulse, was used by a number of asylum researchers in the late nineteenth century in an attempt to better understand mental disease. In charting the use of such a medical technology in the asylum, this article explores the utility of a practice-oriented approach in the history of psychiatry – as a window onto the alienist profession and as a means of investigating how new medical technologies were assimilated into everyday practice.
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