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John Thomas Perceval (14 February 1803 – 28 February 1876) was a British army officer who was confined in lunatic asylums for three years and spent the rest of his life campaigning for reform of the lunacy laws and for better treatment of asylum inmates. [1]
Asylum architecture in the United States, including the architecture of psychiatric hospitals, affected the changing methods of treating the mentally ill in the nineteenth century: the architecture was considered part of the cure. Doctors believed that ninety percent of insanity cases were curable, but only if treated outside the home, in large ...
An Elementary Book for the Use of the Deaf and Dumb in the Connecticut Asylum. Hartford: Hudson & Co., 1817. A Discourse, Delivered at the Dedication of the American Asylum for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Persons. Hartford: Hudson & Co., 1821. Plan of a Seminary for the Education of Instructers of Youth, Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Co., 1825.
Dorothea Dix visited the hospital in 1875, during her travels for mental health reform, and donated pictures and musical instruments. Building for chronically ill females. In 1885, the patients from Howard's Grove were transferred to a newly built red-brick hospital trimmed with gray granite.
John Conolly John Conolly later in life. John Conolly (27 May 1794 – 5 March 1866) was an English psychiatrist.He published the volume Indications of Insanity in 1830. In 1839, he was appointed resident physician to the Middlesex County Asylum where he introduced the principle of non-restraint into the treatment of the insane, which led to non-restraint became accepted practice throughout ...
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John Galt (c. 1819–1862) was the first superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was a figure in reform of the mental health system in the United States during the mid-19th century. He advocated for the "moral" treatment of patients as well as music, occupational and recreational therapy.
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