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Credit: Insanity and insane asylums / by Edward Jarvis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![13 McLean Asylum. ing every moment occupied—a farm, a highly cultivated gar- den, a nursery of fruit and ornamental trees, the sawing, flitting and piling wood, a bowling alley, a billiard table tor each sex, chess, cards, draughts, newspapers, drawing and surveying materials, a library, six horses, carriages musical instruments, and other means of labor and amuse-' ment, which particular tastes may dictate.* Mental and bodily occupation are the main reliance for the tranquillizing the excited mind and agitated feelings ReK g.ouS worship, the daily prayers, reading the holy scriptures and singing are found very efficacious for the same purpose The patients are allowed to attend divine service on the Sab' bath, ,n the churches of their own choice in the vicinity-for almost every denomination has worship within a short walk of the institution. Thirty usually go out to these churlh s and no d.sturbance has yet happened. Beside the great variety of work and amusement in * l-pital grounds, the patients are encouraged to wTk abr / o the gardens, manufactories, monument.* the shTplf ' leges, and other objects of interest, that abound wR few t: no elopement has happened from this ^^ «ding r °; jstesis paternai' coat, han ^ff k '°r ^sp.cious; no strait waist- T, , 4, epl Wltn the specific authority of an «ffl» The leathern muff is also sometimes used t« »H 1 L menC!°f »»-Wal propensity, this Isolery rleV^' is, at first, offered the lunatic and h. ; V ' COnfidence that the extent of his priv ]ges wHl ne ^ * UndentMd' on his ability to comply with h! T /^ ** dependant ■elf f Py Uh the ru,es »»d to control him-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133037_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
