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Excerpt from The Benefactors of the Medical School of Harvard University; With a Biographical Sketch of the Late Dr. George Parkman: An Introductory Lecture, Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 7, 1850
In the palace-like structure devoted to the care of age and infirmity in the sex least able to provide for its own declining years, one great department has long been devoted to those af?icted with mental dis eases. And at the head of this department, were, at the time of Dr. Parkman's early visit, two physicians, whose names and labors are known as far as civilizas tion has extended. His own recollections, revived long afterwards in a visit to the scene Of his early studies, have an interest connected with the subject as well as the writer.
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