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| FROM: |
Christmas In Purgatory: A Photographic Essay On Mental Retardation |
| ORIGINAL CAPTION: |
"Perfected and modified according to circumstances, chains gave way (during the early nineteenth century) to a long series of other ingenuous contrivances, all designed to limit the patient's freedom of movement. According to Oegg, restraining devices were generally thought to be as necessary for the preservation of life as eating, drinking, etc."
Emil Kraepelin |
| CREATOR: |
Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan (photographer) |
| DATE: |
1974 |
| DIMENSIONS: |
6.6 x 7.7 in |
| SOURCE: |
Available at selected libraries |
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