biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1809–92)
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| biography:
| Physician and psychiatrist, born in Leicester, Massachusetts, USA. He wrote extensively on current practices in mental institutions in Europe and the USA, and headed institutions in Frankford, PA (1840) and New York City (1844). He was a co-founder of the American Medical Association (1847). |
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