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  • 81Dementia praecox — An article by Eugen Bleuler on dementia praecox (1911) Dementia praecox (a premature dementia or precocious madness ) refers to a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the… …

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  • 82Boston [1] — Boston (spr. Boßt n), 1) (Bostonium, Fanum St. Botolphi), Borough der englischen Grafschaft Lincoln, am Witham, worüber eine eiserne Brücke geht, durch Kanäle mit dem Innern u. durch einen Hasen mit dem Meere in Verbindung; Handel mit Getreide,… …

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  • 83Thomas Hubbard Sumner — (20 March 1807 ndash; 9 March 1876) was a sea captain during the 19th century. He is best known for developing the celestial navigation method known as the Sumner Line or line of position.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sumner entered Harvard at… …

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  • 84Thomas W. Howie — Infobox Person name = Thomas Wyllie Howie image size = 200px caption = Thomas W Howie birth date = birth date|1856|4|8|df=y birth place = Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK death date = death date and age|1927|7|18|1856|4|8|df=y death place =… …

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  • 85Luis de Carabajal the younger — (d. December 8, 1596, Mexico City), son of Doña Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal and nephew of Luis de Carabajal y Cueva, governor of Nuevo León, was the first Jewish author in America. He was a Castilian by birth, and a resident of Mexico City; he… …

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  • 86Conversion Disorder introduced —    (1795)    The term conversion had occasionally been used in humoral medicine in the sense of the complication of a disease or the side effect of a treatment. In 1795, John Ferriar (1763–1815), physician to the Manchester Infirmary and Lunatic… …

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  • 87Kew Asylum — Kew Lunatic Asylum is a decommissioned psychiatric hospital located between Princess St and Yarra Boulevard in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Operational from 1871 to 1988, Kew was one of the largest asylums ever built in Australia. Later …

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  • 88Mental health in Singapore during the colonial period — Mental health in Singapore has its roots in the West. The first medical personnel in the field were mostly from Britain. Medical education in the early years was almost exclusively for the British, until the establishment of King Edward VII… …

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  • 89List of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament, 1840-1859 — This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 1840 1859. For acts passed prior to 1707 see List of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament and List of Acts of Parliament of the Scottish… …

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  • 90Hanwell Asylum — The (1st Middlesex) County Asylum at Hanwell, also known as Hanwell Insane Asylum, was built for the pauper insane and has evolved to become the West London Mental Health (NHS) Trust (WLMHT). The 2nd Middlesex was Colney Hatch Asylum, opened in… …

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