1864

Opening of New York State Inebriate Asylum, first private inebriate asylum in U.S. advanced by physicians as a medical institution (Tracy III, 107-111); followed by Pennsylvania Sanitarium in 1867. For the private asylums, medical treatment “was more ancillary than primary. . . . in practice, their institutions combined medical and moral reform, harking back to the heroic struggle for manhood, and [they] prioritized an atmosphere of routine domesticity” (112, 113).