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Excerpt from Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Asylum, With the Documents Accompanying the Same, Pursuant to the Act of the Legislature Passed May 26th, 1841
From this period, 1792, may be dated the commencement of a total revolution in the prevailing opinions of medical men and legislators respecting the insane, and in the avowed principles upon which lunatic hospitals should be conducted. The mere safe custody of the patient, no longer constituted the chief aim of such an institution; its higher ambition was to discover and employ means which were likely to res tore to their places and duties in society a portion of the inmates, and to reconcile the remainder to their confinement.
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