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The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason opens.
Date: 1813
Mental health & psych
Hospitals
Led by a Quaker community in Philadelphia, it is a private mental health facility. It is still in existence today, and is known as "Friends Hospital."
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