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Example sentences for "asylums"

Lexicographically close words:
aswel; aswell; aswoon; asya; asylum; asymmetric; asymmetrical; asymmetry; asymptote; asymptotes
  1. Principally in asylums and so-called sanatoriums," Mr. Grimby admitted with a hint of reluctance.

  2. They had heard unpleasant stories of private lunatic asylums and their like.

  3. There are extremely private asylums and so-called sanatoriums where the discipline is strict, and no questions are asked.

  4. They say that this form of the disease occurs most frequently in lying-in asylums or foundling hospitals, and that it has been supposed to depend on a syphilitic taint.

  5. Epidemics of diarrhoea among the aged in asylums and hospitals are not uncommon.

  6. Hence the disease is apt to occur in the crowded wards of hospitals and asylums for children.

  7. It is most frequently encountered in asylums and hospitals for children, being often transmitted from child to child by the nurse or by means of the feeding-bottle.

  8. The physicians of the family have had important connection with insane asylums and hospitals.

  9. There is no frequent relationship between homosexuality and insanity, and such homosexuality as is found in asylums is mostly of a spurious character.

  10. We must provide asylums for the Unemployables also, in order to preserve ourselves.

  11. The plan which Sir Robert Anderson has conceived is that of providing asylums in place of the present prisons, where a man who has proved to have devoted his life to crime would be sent for life and made to earn his living.

  12. We now turn from leper-asylums to consider the leper himself—a sadly familiar figure to the wayfaring man in the Middle Ages.

  13. Hospitals and Asylums of the World [Early Systems, etc.

  14. Fortunately our insane asylums are much better conducted than they were, and this has made people more willing to confide their relatives to them.

  15. Taken by and large throughout the world generally, nearly one in five of all {211} those who die in insane asylums die from this affection.

  16. We know now that the great majority of all the blind children in our blind asylums owe their blindness to one of these venereal affections.

  17. But the legislature should give them the power to rescue our prisons, hospitals and asylums from the indescribable horror of filth, neglect and cruelty which hangs like a murky cloud over many of them.

  18. Show me the hospitals that infidels have built; show me the asylums that infidels have founded.

  19. The Mohammedans were far in advance of the Christians with hospitals and asylums and institutions of learning.

  20. You must also remember that Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

  21. Harriman, one of the greatest railroad managers in the history of America, said that railroads might as well go to lunatic asylums for their employes as to hire cigarette smokers.

  22. From the insane asylums come the testimony.

  23. Our evidence as to the proportion of bright-haired people in lunatic asylums seems to point in this direction.

  24. To me, however, the boys from the asylums had been able to compete with the normal children only because they had been taught in a different way.

  25. About fifteen years ago, being assistant doctor at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Rome, I had occasion to frequent the insane asylums to study the sick and to select subjects for the clinics.

  26. I succeeded in teaching a number of the idiots from the asylums both to read and to write so well that I was able to present them at a public school for an examination together with normal children.

  27. Later on, through the help of a philanthropic organisation, there was founded a Medical Pedagogic Institute where, besides the children from the public schools, we brought together all of the idiot children from the insane asylums in Rome.

  28. He built colleges, hospitals, insane asylums and other institutions.

  29. The hotels, villas, boarding houses, hospitals and asylums are scattered all over the hillside without regularity of arrangement.

  30. This impossible old negro lived on little Eva, and that angelic child has at last been consigned to many asylums for idiots.

  31. It is a practice that is filling the hospitals, poor-houses, and asylums for the insane.

  32. It is true that there are now hospitals or sick-asylums in connection with some of the sailors' homes at our seaports, and to the general hospitals any sailor can be admitted if he should be able to procure a letter from a governor.

  33. Later in the year Sir Charles successfully asserted the principle for which he was contending, by putting women on the Metropolitan Asylums Board.

  34. Footnote 92: It is in the first stage of Seduction, before the female mind becomes vitiated and depraved, that Asylums are most useful.

  35. Asylums for the Relief of Objects of Charity L.

  36. I'll build asylums for the poor, By age or ailment made forlorn: And none shall thrust them from the door, Or sting with looks and words of scorn.

  37. They visit asylums and registered houses at their own will, and the element of surprise is one of their methods.

  38. He had never considered the question of lunatics and lunatic asylums before.

  39. Of the total number of inmates of insane asylums of the entire U.

  40. He’d give it all away--better leave something to his asylums and things, and give him an income but no capital.

  41. Alexander Senior’s dream was to get possession of all Robert’s millions and distribute them within a week amongst a number of asylums and charitable institutions which he patronized.

  42. Again, I say that hundreds of years before the establishment of Christianity there were in India not only hospitals and asylums for people, but even for animals.

  43. In public asylums the inmates were confined in cellars, isolated in cages, chained to floors or walls.

  44. A great deal has been said about asylums and hospitals, as though the Christians are entitled to great credit on that score.

  45. It should be taken from the asylums and penitentiaries, and any man who would apply the lash to the naked back of another is beneath the contempt of honest people.


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