The Greek physician Hippocrates treats mental disorders as diseases to ... Muslim Arabs, who establish asylums as early as the 8th century, carry on the quasi-scientific approach of the Greeks.

A 200-year-old Victorian asylum is set to be transformed ... inmates who were abused in the early 1800s due to lack of education and arguably empathy for mental illness, it attracts ghost-hunters ...

"An insane asylum is a mental institution on steroids ... Global unrest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries resulted in a significant influx of immigration to the United States.

Dr William Minor was one of the most prolific contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary. Unknown to many, he was also ...