Hints for introducing an improved mode of treating the insane in the Asylum
Subtitle: read before the Governors of the New-York Hospital, on the 4th of Fourth-month, 1815
By: By Thomas Eddy
Publisher: Printed for the use of the Governors
Published: 1815
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Psychiatry; Psychiatric Hospitals; Mentally ill; Care; New York Hospital-Westchester Division
Notes: Also published the same year with place and printer (Samuel Wood & sons) in imprint. The present edition is probably the prior.

"Includes (p. 12-18) suggested regulations for the Lunatic Asylum of the New York Hospital, and proposals for an asylum outside the city. The latter led to the establishment of Bloomingdale Asylum in 1818." (Austin, 712).

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