Hermon S. Major (1876-1961) owned and directed the Major Clinic in Kansas City, Missouri from 1921-1955. This clinic, originally known as the Southwest Sanatorium, was a private psychiatric facility devoted to the treatment of alcoholics. Photographs of the exterior and interior at the Simpson-Major clinic and photographs of students at the Scarritt Collegiate Institute are included. There is also a volume of account treatments (payment information) for the Keeley Institute of Kansas, circa 1892-1899. The Keeley Institute was created by Dr. Leslie Keeley in Dwight, Illinois to cure alcoholism; this Kansas volume includes accounts from Topeka, Leavenworth, Wichita, and Kansas City, Kansas. This collection is part of the historic psychiatry material in the Menninger Archives.
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