1 Introduction - The Rise of the Private Madhouse.2 Houses for the Distracted, 1600-1700.3 Madhouses in the Market-Place, 1701-1774.4 An Expanding Madhouse Network, 1775-1815.5 Madhouse Patients.6 Madhouse Entrepreneurs.7 Therapeutics of the Madhouse.8 Conditions and Controversy.9 Conclusion - Insanity and Enterprise.