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This image depicts an informational exhibition of mental hygiene.

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Milledgeville State Hospital, Central Building, Milledgeville, Baldwin County, GA

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A manual of the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydriatic procedures, and the technique of their application in the treatment of disease

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Patients and staff of the St. Louis City Insane Asylum sit in chairs or stand in doorways along a clean and neat hallway posing for the camera.
Originally called the St. Louis County Lunatic Asylum, the separation of the county and the City of St.…

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Building 31, the Hydrotherapy Wing for Men, is significant during the period from 1938 to 1941 as a component of the reconstruction of Agnews State Hospital in a pavilion plan. The 1907 design for the hospital symbolized not only a reconfiguration of…

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THE TECHNIQUE OF HYDROTHERAPY. ...By means of one or more blankets folded and placed in the bottom of an ordinary bath-tub, or better still, by means of air pillows filled with water of the same temperature as the bath, or several large water bags…

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A series of correspondence documenting Susie Harrell's diagnosis of insanity.
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