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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
Bedford Pierce*
Affiliation:
The Retreat, York
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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.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 65 , Issue 271 , October 1919 , pp. 219 - 235
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1919 

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