Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Account of the Rise and Progress of the Asylum, Proposed to Be Established, Near Philadelphia, for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason: With an Abridged Account of the Retreat, a Similar Institution Near York, in England
The interests 'of humanity and science, alike call upon us to communicate freely the discoveries we make, or the failures which happen to us, in a pursuit so intimately con nected with the happiness of our species.
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