Quest for a Cure: The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1773-1885
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Book
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ISBN 10
0879351101
ISBN 13
9780879351106
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Publication Year
1985
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Pages
64
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Erected in 1773, burned in 1885, and now reconstructed, the Public Hospital was the first public facility in colonial America built for the treatment of the mentally ill. This highly readable account gives an overview of the attitudes toward and the methods of treating mental illness in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. - from Amzon
Erected in 1773, burned in 1885, and now reconstructed, the Public Hospital was the first public facility in colonial America built for the treatment of the mentally ill. This highly readable account gives an overview of the attitudes toward and the methods of treating mental illness in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. - from Amzon
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