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  2. Austin State Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Austin State Hospital (ASH), formerly known until 1925 as the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, is a 299-bed psychiatric hospital located in Austin, Texas. It is the oldest psychiatric facility in the state of Texas, and the oldest continuously operating west of the Mississippi River. [2] It is operated by the Texas Health and Human Services ...

  3. John Neely Bryan - Wikipedia

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    "I am the son of John Neely Bryan, now before the court," Edward T. Bryan testified on February 1, 1877. "My father is insane." He was admitted to the Texas State Lunatic Asylum in February 1877 and died there on September 8, 1877. [3] He is believed to be buried in an unmarked grave in the southeast quadrant of the Austin State Hospital Cemetery.

  4. Lunatic asylum - Wikipedia

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    The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.

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    West Virginia— The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, WV. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was built in the 1800s, and during the month of October, it offers flashlight tours of the ...

  6. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    “The brain changes, and it doesn’t recover when you just stop the drug because the brain has been actually changed,” Kreek explained. “The brain may get OK with time in some persons. But it’s hard to find a person who has completely normal brain function after a long cycle of opiate addiction, not without specific medication treatment.”

  7. Amariah Brigham - Wikipedia

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    Amariah Brigham, M.D. (From "Images from the History of Medicine," National Library of Medicine. Amariah Brigham (December 26, 1798, in New Marlborough, Massachusetts – September 8, 1849, in Utica, New York) was an American psychiatrist and, in 1844, one of the founding members of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, which eventually became the ...

  8. Texas ranked most haunted state in America. Here are 20 ... - AOL

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    Texas has 13,710 cemeteries, residents have reported 7,517 ghost sightings and it also has the most haunted locations per 100,000 people.

  9. James Crichton-Browne - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, Crichton-Browne attached greater importance to his six volumes of West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports (1871–1876) [50] – sending Darwin a copy of Volume One on 18 August 1871 – and to the neurological journal Brain which developed from them, in which he was assisted by John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911). [51] [52] [53]