When he took charge of the Asylum he found it a conglomerate mass-many from other States there-incurables, epileptics, idiots-all huddled together.
"The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University"
Robert Peter
Then, through his direct intervention, the Asylum at Anchorage for incurables was erected; all these changes making room for those who stood a chance of being cured instead of their being turned, for the lack of room, from the sheltering care which might restore them.
"The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University"
Robert Peter
A somewhat similar display of skeletons, but without drapery of any sort, may be seen under the Hospital for incurables at Valletta, in what is termed La Chapelle des Morts, where bleached skulls and whitened bones are stored in fantastic shapes by the thousand.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou