Dr. Francis T. Stribling and Moral Medicine: Curing the Insane at Virginia's Western State Hospital: 1836-1874 Krish Kandiah hard-won observations on dying and

hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live

in the last days of the area's quietly refined country splendor

it is not so much a study as it is a pilgrimage

Among the Leaves so Green

and how it happened

Dr. Francis T. Stribling and Moral Medicine: Curing the Insane at Virginia's Western State Hospital: 1836-1874 Krish Kandiah hard-won observations on dying andDr. Stribling was only twenty six years old in 1836 when he became head of Western State hospital. Then, every institution for the insane in the South, and all but a very few in the remainder of the country, were little more than penitentiaries. Dr. Robert Hansen, superintendent of Western State Hospital, wrote in 1967, "In an age of the common man, Dr. Stribling possessed an uncommon and profound knowledge of human nature, and the importance of human