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The Road to Bellevue: Conditions and treatment of the mentally ill in Jamaica 1776-1861

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Reflecting the medical thinking of his time, Dr Thomas Dancer, former physician to Bath and Island Botanist in Jamaica, had recommended in 1819 that bleeding and purging were the best methods to be used for treating the insane
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