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Life In The Asylum, Part 1
Let us stop at this open door. We enter the boudoir of a lady, elegant in manners and intellectual in conversation. She is surrounded by the luxuries of taste and industry, in her varied works of skill we are beguiled to pass an hour, which only seems too short....
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Title: Life In The Asylum, Part 1
From: Life In The Asylum
Creator:  A (author)
Date: January 1855
Format: Article
Publication: The Opal
Publisher: State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, N.Y.
Source: New York State Library
Control no.: 051 O612 1855
Location: vol.5, no.1, pp.4-6
Keywords: Amariah Brigham; Asylums; Confinement; Doctors; Health & Medicine; Identity; Insanity; Institutions; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Lunatic Asylum; Psychiatric Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Women & Gender
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy


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- Life In The Asylum, Part 1 (doc)
- Life In The Asylum, Part 2 (doc)