New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, The: A History of Old Main by Dennis Webster
New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, The: A History of Old Main

Dennis Webster

New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, The: A History of Old Main

Dennis Webster

174 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

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Known as "Old Main," the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica opened in 1843 as the first institution of its kind to treat madness as a medical illness, not a curse. A series of groundbreaking administrators sought to save mentally ill New Yorke...

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