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State and Local Resources
State Hospitals
(Please note that Central State Hospital does not currently have a website.)
ARH Psychiatric Center – Hazard
How to Request Copies of Records
Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Service, Office of Vital Statistics
Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
Louisville Free Public Library
National and Other Resources
History of 19th-Century Psychiatry
Digital Collection at the University of Virginia Medical Artifacts Collection
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Internet Archive (Digital Library)
United State Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
United States National Archives
American Civil War Medicine & Surgical Antiques
Kentucky Historic Institutions 