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ble diseases such as breast cancer. During the early 1860s, Silas Weir Mitchell experimented with neurosurgery to relieve chronic pain.
The growth of sentimentalism in Victorian America's literature, art, and religion was partly behind the change. The Philadelphia Bulletin echoed popular opinion when it editorialized in 1860 that the man most fit "to officiate at the couch of sickness . . .is kind and gentle."
And as time went on...