From Doctor To Patient (Part One)

Season: 7 Episode: 27

Dr Pownall was a surgeon, asylum owner and former mayor of Calne whose recurring mental illness ended in tragedy. After being discharged from Northwoods Asylum as "recovered", he murdered his servant, Louisa Cook, and spent the rest of his life in Broadmoor, where he died in 1882. Behind the headlines lay a story of bitter disagreements between doctors and officials, where blame often took priority over working together.

CAST

Lucretia Pownall- Cerise Reed

Rev. John Guthrie - Martin Palmer

Samuel Arden - Joe Wilson

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This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England.

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SOURCES

Devizes & Wiltshire Gazette 3 Dec 1840

Bristol Mercury 12 Dec. 1840

Gloucester Quarter Sessions 7th July 1849

Gloucestershire Trinity Sessions: Renewal of Dr Fox’s License. Gloucester Journal 5th July 1851

Commission of Lunacy. The Times 14th June 1852

Ancestry

National Library of Medicine

Swindon Advertiser & North Wiltshire Chronicle 24th Oct 1859

The History of the Old Private Lunatic Asyum at Fishponds, Bristol 1740– 1859. Bristol: University of Bristol. Phillips HT (1973)

A History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Bristol: J W Arrowsmith. Smith GM (1917)

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