Dorothea Dix Quote

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity.... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.


Memorial Soliciting an Appropriation for the State Hospital for the Insane, at Lexington (ed. 1846)


Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity.... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as...

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity.... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as...

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity.... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as...

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity.... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as...