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TUKE, Samuel (1784 – 1857)

TUKE, Samuel (1784 – 1857)

1784 – 1857

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1813 CE

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Description of The Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons…

TUKE, Samuel (1784 – 1857)
TUKE, Samuel (1784 – 1857)

The pioneer work by an Englishman advocating humane treatment of the mentally ill. Tuke set out in this work the successful results of his experience with the “mild system of treatment” which had been inst…