31
In his library Galdós had a very minor work by Charcot and D. Hardy, Informe sobre el estado mental de Martín Larios y Larios (Madrid, 1889). According to Professor Shoemaker, it had an obvious impact on Galdós' later conceptions of abnormal psychology: Estudios sobre Galdós. Homenaje ofrecido al Prof. William II. Shoemaker (Valencia, 1970), 126.
32
The account of Simarro's campaign to reform mental health care is based on the work of Professor Temma Kaplan, who has allowed us to see a preliminary draft of a chapter from her forthcoming book on medicine and science in the Restoration Era. See also her article, «Positivism and Liberalism», in La Revolución de 1868: Historia, Pensamiento, Literatura, eds. Clare E. Lida and Iris M. Zavala (New York, 1970), 254-66.
33
Roben D. Rumbaut, M.D., «The First Psychiatric Hospital of the Western World», American Journal of Psychiatry, 128 (1972), 1305-1309.
34
For the history of psychiatry in the nineteenth century, see: Espinosa, Asistencia psiquiátrica, passim.
35
Galdós, «El Crimen del Cura Galeote», Obras inéditas, ed. Alberto Ghiraldo (Madrid, 1924), VII: Cronicón [1883-1886], 146-82. The three dispatches to La Prensa (for which Galdós wrote regularly, 1883-1893) are dated April 21, April 30, and October 9, 1886. For an analysis by a medical historian of his reporting, see: F. Javier Cortezo-Collantes, «Silva Literaria: Benito Pérez Galdós y la Medicina», parts 14 and 15: «El Caso del Cura Caleote», El Siglo Medico (Madrid), CXIV (1946), 874-76, 914-16. See also Robert Ricard, «El Asesinato del Obispo Martínez Izquierdo y el clero madrileño en la época de Galdós», Anales Galdosianos I (1966), 125-29. For the importance to the psychiatry of the Galeote case, see Professor Kaplan's forthcoming book.
36
Galeote did not recover. See the photograph of the 'célebre cura', still at Leganés, twenty-six years later: El Duende de la Colegiata, «Hablando con los locos», Heraldo de Madrid, 7748 (15 February 1912), 6.
37
Although Galdós notes in his memoirs that he was a deputy while writing Fortunata y Jacinta, he does not link the two events: «Memorias de un desmemoriado» [1916], in: Obras, VI, 1664. He is utterly detached from his role as deputy: Ibid., VI, 1663-66.
38
Letter from Galdós to Oller, on 18 July 1886, reprinted in: Pilar Faus Sevilla, La Sociedad española del siglo XIX en la obra de Pérez Galdós (Valencia, 1972), 294.
39
The model might be Robert Weber's fine piece of scholarship: The 'Miau' Manuscript of Benito Pérez Galdós: A Critical Study (Berkeley, 1964).
40
Galdós, Prologue to «Niñerías», by Manuel Tolosa Latour [1889], in: Obras, VI, 1481.