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Visit To The Bicêtre
As superintendent of an asylum for the insane in one of the northern counties of England, I had for some time felt desirous of visiting Paris, for the purpose of examining the methods there pursued for cultivating the faculties and improving the habits of children of naturally weak intellect....
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Title: Visit To The Bicêtre
Creator: n/a
Date: March 27, 1847
Format: Article
Publication: Littell's Living Age
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.12, no.150, pp.606-610
Keywords: Advocacy; Asylums; Bicêtre; Children; Cognitive Disability; Doctors; Edouard Seguin; Education; Educational Institutions; England; France; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Insanity; Institutions; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Moral Treatment; Schools; Scotland; Social Welfare & Communities
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