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Dr. Charles Henry Nichols, 1865-1880. Nichols, Dr. (Charles Henry), famous brain specialist, between 1865 and 1880. Acting assist. Surgeon during Civil War. Conducted a general hospital for U.S. Vols. Supt. Hospital for the Insane, Wash. D.C. [Physician: superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington DC, later known as St Elizabeth's Hospital. Completed in 1852, this was the USA's first large-scale federal psychiatric hospital. Superintendent at the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, New York City].