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Colonial madness: The Public Hospital of Williamsburg, Virginia

February 22, 2017

Brian Andrew Sharpless Pullman, United States The founding of the hospital The Public Hospital of Williamsburg Although it is widely known that the first hospital in the United States was the Pennsylvania Hospital (founded in 1751 in Philadelphia), few may realize that the first American hospital devoted exclusively to treating the mentally ill was […]