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Excerpt from Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Society, 1876: Twenty-Sixth Annual Session
The policy on this subjeet is apparently founded on the assumption that the insane person is a criminal, and that the obligations of the State are discharged when she furnishes him with a prison, while humanity and philanthropy teach that what he most needs is a home, and that for the largest number Of these unfortunates, care and comfort are the means of ameli oration, rather than medical treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
