Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends : containing an account of its origin and progress, the modes of treatment, and a statement of cases / by Samuel Tuke ; with an elevation of the building.

  • Tuke, Samuel, 1784-1857.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends : containing an account of its origin and progress, the modes of treatment, and a statement of cases / by Samuel Tuke ; with an elevation of the building. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    TO WILLIAM TUKE, THE FIRST ACTIVE PROMOTER OF THE ESTABLISHMENT DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES, AND TO WHOSE PERSEVERING EXERTIONS FOR ITS WELFARE, UNRELAXED AT THE ADVANCED AGE OF EIGHTY YEARS, MUCH OF ITS PRESENT REPUTATION MAY JUSTLY BE ATTRD3UTED; THIS WORK IS (WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE) MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS AFFECTIONATE GRANDSON, SAMUEL TUKE,