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Quest for a Cure: The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1773-1885

Name: Quest for a Cure: The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1773-1885
Brand: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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paperback – October 1, 1985

by Shomer S. Zwelling

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ISBN-13: 9780879351106 ISBN-10: 0879351101

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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paperback

Published

October 1, 1985

Weight

1.0 lbs

Dimensions

26.00×0.60×19.10 cm

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Quest for a Cure: The Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1773-1885 by Shomer S. Zwelling. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780879351106.

Erected in 1773, burned in 1885, and now reconstructed, the Public Hospital was the first public facility in colonial America built for the treatment of the mentally ill. This highly readable account gives an overview of the attitudes toward and the methods of treating mental illness in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.