Word: pineles
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Confinement in Cells. But the hospital was born with a split personality, and much of its effort has been devoted to the care of "lunaticks." As early as 1789 (before the Englishman Tuke and the Frenchman Pinel began the reform of bedlams), Dr. Benjamin Rush complained that his treatments of the mentally ill were "rendered abortive by the cells of the hospital . . . Few patients have ever been confined in these cells who have not been affected by a cold . . . Several have died of consumption." He recommended "more wholesome apartments," and they were soon provided...
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