I am referring to the Biennial Report of the Trustees of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville, Illinois, from 1854. This institution was the first hospital of its kind in the ...

The author takes us to sites in Jacksonville to show the history of this institution. The author of the book takes us to sites in Jacksonville to show the history of this institution. Illinois ...

“The Untold History of the First Illinois State Hospital for the Insane” By Joe Squillace Published by Joe Squillace, 271 pages, $19.99 (trade paperback) Jacksonville, Illinois, sits about 75 ...

No wonder Elizabeth had found herself on the wrong side of a locked ward door in the Jacksonville Insane Asylum, in Illinois. The received medical wisdom of the age was that assertive, ambitious ...

diagnosing her as insane and sending her to the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville. His reasons included her refusal to shake his hand and the fact that she was above the age ...

One day in the summer of 1860, an Illinois woman named Elizabeth ... to the train that would take her on to the Jacksonville Insane Asylum. Incarcerated in the asylum for three years, she would ...

I am referring to the Biennial Report of the Trustees of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville, Illinois, from 1854. This institution was the first hospital of its kind in the ...