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Definition of Asylums
1. asylum [n] - See also: asylum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asylums
Literary usage of Asylums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"There should be private asylums by all means, but if patients are not placed ...
The objection made to the present class of attendants in public asylums is ..."
2. Mental pathology and therapeutics by Wilhelm Griesinger (1867)
"THERAPEUTICS. however, we accept this system of two relatively connected lunatic
asylums, the chronic asylum must be capable of containing at least three ..."
3. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"What asylums have you founded? They would have said " None." Suppose three hundred
years after the death of Christ the same questions had been asked the ..."
4. Transactions by Epidemiological Society of London, Zoological Society of London (1902)
"PRESIDENT,—Sir, some time ago you did me the honour of asking me to read a Paper
on " Dysentery in asylums," in consequence of a Report issued by Dr. Durham ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"As the asylums receive a large number of patients from the clinics, the phases of
... asylums in countries where no Psychiatric Clinics exist must be ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"corporated asylums receiving State aid. The following is a lis£ of these
institutions, and the number of insane in each : The New York State Lunatic Asylum ..."
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