Report of a committee of the Board of Directors for Public Institutions in relation to the condition of the lunatic hospital, made May 23, 1862

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boston (Mass.). Board of Directors for Public Institutions.

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):

Boston Lunatic Hospital.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (15 pages).

Place of Publication:

1862

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:

1477834955