Quest for a Cure: The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, 1773-1885

Quest for a Cure: The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, 1773-1885
ISBN-10
0879351101
ISBN-13
9780879351106
Category
Medical
Pages
76
Language
English
Published
1985
Publisher
Colonial Williamsburg
Author
Shomer S. Zwelling

Description

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.

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