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A chemistry laboratory in St. Elizabeths Hospital's Blackburn Laboratory of Pathology. When St. Elizabeths, the first national mental hospital in the United States, opened in 1855, very little was known about the causes of mental disease. Thus, in 1884, Superintendent W.W. Godding appointed pathologist Isaac W. Blackburn, a pioneer in neuropathology, as chief of the first pathology laboratory established in a mental hospital in this country, and charged him with the task of studying the pathology of mental disease.
c. 1910
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