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Excerpt from The Medical Chronicle, or Montreal Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, 1855, Vol. 2
A lunatic asylum, quite within our own memory, and we have not as yet attained to a very advanced age, was associated in the public mind with all that was gloomy and repulsive in character. An extensive range of buildings of a heavy exterior, with windows protected by strong iron bars, and surrounded by high stone walls; massive gates.
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