He was influenced by Benjamin Rush, who inspired him to take interest in the state asylums.
She was also the first woman to work as an intern in state asylums.
The 1840 Massachusetts census counted 978 "lunatics"; the two state asylums had only 353 beds.
We even tried to take a tour of Chattahoochee, the largest state asylum.
It was nearly dawn when a police car took Anthony Collins away for treatment in the state asylum.
She'd gone to rescue Grandfather Ponder, who'd been put in the state asylum by mistake.
The mother was being taken to the state asylum for the insane.
Most of them in there are what they call criminally insane, but their family has enough money to keep them out of some state asylum.
At this time, the hospital was categorised as a state asylum for dependent adults' with infirmity or illness of 'incurable character'.
He was sent to the state asylum at Napa.
