TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Kruif,Paul
TI  - A man against insanity: the birth of drug therapy in a rural Michigan asylum 
SN  - 1943995559
AV  - R154 .F47 D45 2018
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Traverse City, MI
PB  - Mission Point Press
KW  - Ferguson, John Thatcher,
KW  - Traverse City State Hospital (Mich.) x History
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Biography
KW  - Care
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - Traverse City
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "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
N2  - 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
ER  -