Announcement of Brigham Hall, a hospital for the insane : Canandaigua, N.Y., January, 1860

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brigham Hall (Canandaigua, N.Y.)

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):

Brigham Hall (Canandaigua, N.Y.).

Psychiatric hospitals--New York (State)--Canandaigua.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

1860

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:

Frontis. wood-engraving of Brigham Hall.

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

OCLC:

1477837657