Byron Ravenell: 1 book
Dr. Francis T. Stribling and Moral Medicine
Curing the Insane at Virginia's Western State Hospital: 1836-1874
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Dr. Stribling was only twenty-six years old in 1836 when he became head of Western State hospital. Then, every institution for the insane in the South, and all but a very few in the remainder of the country, were little more than penitentiaries. Dr. Robert Hansen, superintendent of Western State Hospital,...
