Introduction -- Salvation in Siena -- Madonna of mercy -- The Harrowing of Hell -- Rescuing the orphans -- Blood of the martyrs -- The burning sickness -- Portraying the patients -- Visions of redemption -- The anatomist's knife and regents' charity -- Fighting the plague -- Frenzy, Bedlam and The Cripples -- Shelter for soldiers -- Saving the seamen -- The Good Samaritan and Coram's foundlings -- Benefactors, doctors and quacks -- Enfants-trouvés, lying-in and music-making -- Pestilence and the physiognomy of madness -- Classed among the dead -- Acute mental derangement -- Victorian values -- I wanted to scream -- From exuberant optimism to the trauma of war -- A megaphone for health -- The Mexican revolution -- For the needs of their own spirit.