De Kruif, Paul,  1890-1971, <br/><br/>
A man against insanity :  the birth of drug therapy in a rural Michigan asylum / 
Paul De Kruif. 
 - New edition. 
 - xiii, 182 pages :  illustrations, portraits ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> "1 doctor, 107 nurses, 1000 patients"--Front cover.  "Medical / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology"--Back cover.  Edition statement from preface, page xiii.  Originally published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1957. 
<br/><br/> The story of Dr. Jack Ferguson, a man who battled drug addiction and had repeated psychotic breakdowns, but recovered and became a physician. He was determined to help the so-called incurably insane and mostly forgotten mental patients at the Traverse City State Hospital through experimental drug therapy, and in the process changed the way the mentally ill were treated. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1943995559 9781943995554 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Ferguson, John Thatcher, 1908-1968. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Traverse City State Hospital (Mich.) x History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mentally ill--Biography.<br/>Mentally ill--Care.<br/>Physicians--Michigan--Biography.<br/>Psychiatric hospitals--History.--Michigan--Traverse City
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R154 .F47  / D45 2018