Twenty-five years with the insane /
"This book, based on the author's twenty-five years of experience as a clergyman working in the Michigan Asylum for the Insane, describes various mental diseases and their treatments. Topics discussed include the following: insanity and its treatment among the ancients; the insane during t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
John MacFarlane,
1885.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book, based on the author's twenty-five years of experience as a clergyman working in the Michigan Asylum for the Insane, describes various mental diseases and their treatments. Topics discussed include the following: insanity and its treatment among the ancients; the insane during the early Christian centuries; the first hospitals and asylums for the insane and their character; curious superstitions and strange methods of treating the insane; the beginnings of reform and improvement; the modern asylum; guarantees for the safety and proper care of the insane in asylums; treatment of the insane outside of asylums; opinions and feelings of patients; schools and insanity; religion and insanity; alcohol and insanity; tobacco and other narcotics and insanity; inherited tendencies and insanity; and insanity and crime." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | "Daniel Putnam, late chaplain of Michigan Asylum at Kalamazoo." Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (3 pages 1., 157 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |