Colony Treatment of the Insane and Other Defectives

Name: Colony Treatment of the Insane and Other Defectives
Author: P. L. (Patrick Livingston) Murphy

by P. L. (Patrick Livingston) Murphy

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Mary Glenn Krause, MFR, David E. Brown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

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2017-07-12

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Public domain in the USA.

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Mentally ill -- Care -- North Carolina Psychiatric hospital care -- North Carolina

About the author

P. L. (Patrick Livingston) Murphy

1848–1907

A North Carolina physician and hospital superintendent, he spent nearly twenty-five years reshaping care for people with mental illness. He is remembered for pushing treatment over mere confinement and for helping replace the word "asylum" with "hospital" in his state.

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