Kirkbride Buildings posted an article on the Bryce Hospital of Alabama's newspaper The Meteor.

Dr Isaac Ray and Dr Kirkbride are mentioned briefly in the first issue. And Dr Pliny Earle is applauded for his humor in an annual report from Northampton State Hospital, while playfully chided for referring to baby pigs as “infants” (Oh, that 19th century humor…). On the same page, Dorothea Dix is also mentioned and described as in excellent health and “still actively engaged in doing good,” while also contemplating a visit to Bryce.

On page two of issue eight, volume two, the paper’s editor (a patient at the hospital) describes someone’s publicized disbelief that The Meteor is the work of the insane. With some humor, the editor says, “He manifestly thinks the Meteor wires are worked by some one who is not insane. With this we find no fault. It is our own conviction. But unfortunately we can’t get the Superintendent to see it.”

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