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The Care and Treatment of the Insane Poor in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Pliny Earle*
Affiliation:
Medical Superintendent of the Northampton Lunatic Hospital, U.S

Extract

Of all the subjects legitimately belonging to the specially of psychiatry, or immediately connected with it, no one has, for the last few years, occupied a more prominent position in the United States, or called forth a larger number of words, oral, written, and printed, than the proper provision for the custody, care, and cure of the insane.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1868 

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“American Journal of Insanity,” July, 1868.Google Scholar

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