Condition of the insane in Massachusetts

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waterston, R. C. (Robert Cassie), 1812-1893, 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):

Mentally ill--Care--Massachusetts--History--19th century.

Mentally ill.

Psychiatric hospitals--Massachusetts--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (23 pages).

Place of Publication:

1843

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:

First appeared as an article in the Christian examiner, Jan. 1843.

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

OCLC:

956544126