Biomedical Ephemera, or: A Frog for Your Boils

The Utica Crib for uncooperative patients at insane asylums, and later, at (somewhat) more legitimate “institutions”.

The Utica Crib for uncooperative patients at insane asylums, and later, at (somewhat) more legitimate “institutions”.

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    posted 25 May, 2011
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