York Retreat
asylum, York, England, United Kingdom
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treatment of mental disorders
- In mental disorder: Early history
…William Tuke, who established the York Retreat for the humane care of the mentally ill in 1796, and the physician Vincenzo Chiarugi, who published a humanitarian regime for his hospital in Florence in 1788. In the mid-19th century Dorothea Dix led a campaign to increase public awareness of the inhumane…
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