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The best specimen of a tyrant : the ambitious Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand and the Wisconsin Insane Hospital /

In 1847, young Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand left Vermont to seek his fortune in the West, but in Wisconsin his business ventures failed, and a medical practice among hard-up settlers added little to his pocketbook. During the Civil War he organized and ran one of the army's biggest hospitals but r...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doherty, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2013.
Edición:1st University of Iowa Press ed. 2013.
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505 0 |a Introduction; Prologue: A Locked Room, a Battered Body; 1. "The Fortune I Desired and Expected"; 2. "I Soon Found My Hands Full"; 3. "My Blood Is Up"; 4. "The Best Specimen of a Tyrant"; 5. "A Severe Punishment of a Deluded and Spiteful People"; 6. "The Whole Camp Still as Death"; 7. "The First Negro Hospital"; 8. "The Wails of the Wounded"; 9. "Friends and Enemies"; 10. "A Second Class Man"; 11. "The Usual Little Jarrings in the Ward"; 12. "A Critical and Searching Examination"; 13. "Patients that Manifested a Dislike to Dr. Van Norstrand"; 14. "Little Short of Murderous Neglect." 
505 8 |a 15. "Rotten Eggs"16. "A Solemn Court of Impeachment"; 17. "Abandon Hope"; 18. "A True Gentleman of the Old School"; Epilogue: "Three Percent Hastings"; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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