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WorkPliny Earle
Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane
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“When the insane are placed under proper curative treatment in the early stages of the disease, from 75 to 90 per cent. recover.”
“Show the insane man that you feel an interest in his ease, that you really consult his welfare; that you will even submit to some self-denial or self-sacrifice to promote his interests”
“It is now one year and eight months since the ‘tranquilizing chairs,’ so called, were taken from the halls, and neither of them has since been used.”
“There is no hesitation in asserting the belief that the patients have been more quiet and orderly, under this general disuse of the means in question, than they could have been with their constant use.”
“The character of the persons employed to take the immediate care of the insane has very important influence in determining the extent to which confinement of the limbs is expedient.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Twenty-fifth Annual Report . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 11 February 1846.