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Psychiatry a Hundred Years Ago: With Comments on the Problems of To-day. The Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland, held at York, July 22nd, 1919

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Bedford Pierce*
Affiliation:
The Retreat, York

Extract

The theme of the address I am about to give—if anything so discursive can be said to have a theme—is the medical treatment of the insane during the period of transition and reform at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1919 

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