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Asylum Inmates, image A019401 Benjamin Rush engraving, image B022632 Joseph Vimont's Traité de phrénologie humaine et comparée, table 82, brain image Etienne Esquirol's maniac before and after the cure, lithograph, image A013387 Benjamin Rush's tranquilizer chair, image A013394 Phillipe Pinel releasing the insane at Bedlam, image B021323 Introduction Early Psychiatric Hospitals & Asylums Benjamin Rush, M.D.: The Father of American Psychiatry The 1840s: Early Professional Institutions & Lay Activisim 19th-Century Psychiatrists of Note 19th-Century Psychiatric Debates Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900

Last reviewed: 25 February 2008
Last updated: 27 February 2008
First published: 19 September 2006
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