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EXCERPT: Opium has always been used at this Institution in the treatment of insanity, and often with great success. In some cases it appears to be useless, and in a few injurious, particularly in those in which the skin is hot and dry, and the pulse full and hard. But such cases are rare....

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TITLE:  The Medical Treatment Of Insanity
CREATOR:  Amariah Brigham (author)
DATE:  April 1847
FORMAT:  Article
FORMAT TYPE:  Magazine
 
PUBLICATION:  American Journal of Insanity
SOURCE:  Available at selected libraries
LOCATION:  vol.3, no.4, pp.353-358
 
KEYWORDS:  Amariah Brigham, Asylums, Doctors, Hydrotherapy, Insanity, Institutions, Medical Professionals, Medication, Medicine, New York, New York State Lunatic Asylum, Psychiatric Disability, Treatments Therapies Cures


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