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Excerpt from: The Ladies' Fair Our own wish for Asylums is that they should be retired -- that they should be not the gaze of idle curiosity, or the opened way to the infirmities of frailty, but a repose for the “dead in trespasses and sins” incident to the unstrung harp of thousand strings, which is kept in tune by the efforts of medical men.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The Ladies' Fair | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | March 1855 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | The Opal | |
| Source: | New York State Library | |
| Control no.: | 051 O612 1855 | |
| Location: | vol.5, no.3, pp.82-85 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Asylums; Doctors; Entertainment; Health & Medicine; Holidays; Identity; Insanity; Institutions; Leisure; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Lunatic Asylum; Psychiatric Disability; Social Welfare & Communities | |
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