“On this day in 1817, the first private mental health hospital in the United States was officially opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was called “The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason.” If they had kept on naming clinics in that style, then I guess the Betty Ford Clinic would now be “The Institution for the Curing of Hollywood Actors Deprived of the Use of Their Cocaine”.
