Louise G. Rabinovitch (1869-20th-century) was an early 20th-century psychologist and advocate for improved treatment in New York City mental asylums.

[10] Her testimony highlighted that there was a lack of attendants in the asylum on Ward's Island and that the chief restraints were "enormous doses of chloral and morphine".

Her testimony impacted the commissioners: When she had concluded the autocratic Department of Charities and Correction and the medical gentlemen of Ward's Island were dazed and panicky.

President Porter, who the day before had attempted to snap his fingers at the crusade as he had done in the grand jury room and said he would not answer the testimony had changed his attitude and had been to Mayor Gilroy pleading for an assistant corporation counsel to defend the asylum.

So the Commissioners adjourned until June 14 to give the department time to see if one little woman has damaged its insane asylum record beyond repair"[11]She read a paper in front of the International Psychological Congress in Rome.

"[12] In 1907 Rabinovitch read a paper in front of the International Congress on Psychiatry in Amsterdam spurring the headline "The First Born Not Necessarily the Most Brilliant.

[14] A cable from Paris was reported in 1908, "The Paris authorities which will permit her to apply the system on a large scale in local insane asylums... Luis Parisot, a prominent scientist said Miss Rabinovitch's discovery is destined to exert a profound influence in the practice of both surgery and medicine.

A newspaper headline proclaimed, "Device of woman doctor relieves man from pain while his toes are amputated at Hartford Hospital.

The surgery was described: When the man have been made ready for the operation straps were fastened about his legs at points designated by Dr Rabinovitch.

Children of alcoholic parents, if not idiots and imbeciles, are apt to be invalid in many other ways and are prone to die in infancy of meningitis.