Letter to the nobleman and gentlemen of the counties of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, and Wigtown, and to the chairmen and governors of the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary on the necessity of erecting an asylum for the accommodation of lunatics within the district

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bushnan, J. Stevenson (John Stevenson), 1808?-1884, author.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospitals--Scotland.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (23 pages).

Place of Publication:

1831

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1477834888