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Quotes from On Behalf of the Insane Poor in Kentucky — Dorothea Dix

1802–1887 United States

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All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever. Recovery is the rule; permanent disease the exception.

On Behalf of the Insane Poor in Kentucky (1846)

In Kentucky alone, of all the States I have traversed, it has not been my painful experience to find the insane poor, filling the cells of poor- houses, or the dungeons of the jails.

On Behalf of the Insane Poor in Kentucky (1846)

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