Asleep Quotes

“In the United States, the person who led the fight to reform treatment of the mentally ill and to develop asylums was Dorothea Dix. Often neglected in history, Dix was a nurse”
― Molly Caldwell Crosby, Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

“Women, it was believed, simply didn’t have the mind for science or medicine—in spite of the fact that Marie Curie had just become the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice.”
― Molly Caldwell Crosby, Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

“It was not until summer break that the next episode began. This time, it arrived in the form of a respiratory tic, a compulsive sniffing.”
― Molly Caldwell Crosby, Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

“any psychiatrist who based his studies entirely on the subconscious, ignoring organic causes like disease, would build his theories on sand and watch the “psychological constructions collapse like a house of cards.”
― Molly Caldwell Crosby, Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

“One would prefer a physical trouble which would produce outspoken feeblemindedness with its limited range of harmful effects to this encephalitis which may produce an intellectual, tormented and cruel monster out of a gentle girl or boy”
― Molly Caldwell Crosby, Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

“One would prefer a physical trouble which would produce outspoken feeblemindedness with its limited range of harmful effects to this encephalitis which may produce an intellectual, tormented and cruel monster out of a gentle girl or boy.”
― Molly Caldwell Crosby, Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries