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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Psychiatric Milestone, edited by
Howard Townsend, Bronson Winthrop and R. Horace Gallatin
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Title: A Psychiatric Milestone
Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921
Author: Various
Editor: Howard Townsend
Bronson Winthrop
R. Horace Gallatin
Release Date: March 14, 2005 [EBook #15365]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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[Illustration: THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL, DUANE STREET AND BROADWAY
The building to the left was erected in 1808 for the exclusive use of
patients suffering from mental disorders.]
A PSYCHIATRIC MILESTONE
BLOOMINGDALE HOSPITAL CENTENARY
1821-1921
"Cum corpore ut una
Crescere sentimus, pariterque senescere mentem."
--LUCRETIUS
PRIVATELY PRINTED
BY THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL
1921
ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE
HOWARD TOWNSEND
BRONSON WINTHROP
R. HORACE GALLATIN
PREFACE
The opening of Bloomingdale Asylum on June 1, 1821, was an important
event in the treatment of mental disorders and in the progress of
humanitarian and scientific work in America. Hospital treatment for
persons suffering from mental disorders had been furnished by the New
York Hospital since its opening in 1792, and the Governors had given
much thought and effort to securing the facilities needed. The treatment
consisted, however, principally in the administration of drugs and the
employment of such other physical measures as were in vogue at that
time. Little attempt was made to study the minds of the patients or to
treat them by measures directed specifically to influencing their
thoughts, feelings, and behavior, and what treatment of this character
there was had for its object little more than the repression of
excitement and disordered activity. The value and importance of
treatment directed to the mind had, indeed, been long recognized, but in
practice it had been subordinated to treatment of the actual and assumed
physical disorders to which the mental state of the patient was
attributed, and, in the few hospitals where persons suffering from
mental disorders were received, means for its application were almost or
quite entirely lacking. The establishment of Bloomingdale Asylum for the
purpose of ascertaining to what extent the recovery of the patients
might be accomplished by moral as well as by purely medical treatment
marked, therefore, the very earliest stages of the development in
America of the system of study and treatment of mental disorders which
with increasing amplification and precision is now universally employed.
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