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One evening, at a social gathering, the conversation turned upon the subject of insanity, and especially of its treatment.
Two of our number had recently been privileged to visit the State Insane Asylum at Worcester, and were loud in their praises of its management. For more than half an hour the conversation went on, and I noticed that our hostess listened with an absorbing interest, occasionally closing her eyes and clasping her hands tightly in her depth and intensity of feeling; but not a word did she speak until a gentleman present had remarked, or had given it as his opinion, that since the death of Dr. Samuel B. Woodward there had been no superintendent at the Worcester Asylum equal to him.