Asylums

They intrigue and strike terror in us all. Yet we all love a good asylum story.
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Hydrotherapy. Pilgrim State Hospital, 1936 by Alfred Eisenstaedt / Psychiatrists used water therapy to treat mental patients. Hyper patients got warm baths, while lethargic patients received cool sprays. Some doctors, however, used extreme measures, prescribing therapies that seemed more like punishment. Some patients were mummified in towels soaked in ice-cold water. Others were strapped down & submerged in a bath for hours or even days & were only allowed out to use the toilet. Hydrotherapy, Medicine, Relieve, Mental Hospital, Medical, Psychiatric Hospital, Hospital, Medical History, Mental Asylum
Pilgrim State Hospital
Hydrotherapy. Pilgrim State Hospital, 1936 by Alfred Eisenstaedt / Psychiatrists used water therapy to treat mental patients. Hyper patients got warm baths, while lethargic patients received cool sprays. Some doctors, however, used extreme measures, prescribing therapies that seemed more like punishment. Some patients were mummified in towels soaked in ice-cold water. Others were strapped down & submerged in a bath for hours or even days & were only allowed out to use the toilet.
These were used in Victorian Mental Asylums during the 17th and 18th century to prevent masturbation (this is madness in itself!) Roman, Inventions, Torture Devices, Medical Oddities, Vintage Medical, Masturbation
These were used in Victorian Mental Asylums during the 17th and 18th century to prevent masturbation (this is madness in itself!)
early medicine used to calm mental patients Instrumental, Horror, Prison Reform, Paranormal
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early medicine used to calm mental patients
Mental asylum restraint. This device was used to restrain the insane in mental asylums. Photographed at the Fool Tower, in Vienna, Austria. History, Old Hospital, Historia
Mental asylum restraint - Stock Image - N560/0030
Mental asylum restraint. This device was used to restrain the insane in mental asylums. Photographed at the Fool Tower, in Vienna, Austria.
Patients in an asylum Italy Insane Asylum Patients, Psychiatric Nursing, Psych Ward, Poor People, Doctors
Patients in an asylum Italy
Victorian mental asylum patient Kindle, Robert Louis, Henry Jekyll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Film Noir, Mr. Hyde, Libros, Louis Stevenson, Mr.
Victorian mental asylum patient
Female patient chained to a post in an 18th century mental asylum. Methods of constraint such as this were often used because patients were seen as being dangerous. It also made the job easier for the few warders assigned to look after the patients. In 1792, the French physician Philippe Pinel was the first to realize that such deprivation of movement & light actually worsened patients' mental conditions. Psych, Insanity, Medical Practice
18th century female patient chained to a post - Stock Image - N560/0014
Female patient chained to a post in an 18th century mental asylum. Methods of constraint such as this were often used because patients were seen as being dangerous. It also made the job easier for the few warders assigned to look after the patients. In 1792, the French physician Philippe Pinel was the first to realize that such deprivation of movement & light actually worsened patients' mental conditions.
Mental patient wearing respirator in a shock unit Mental Health, Inspiration, Medical Treatment, Medical Care, Neurology, Medical Artifacts
Mental patient wearing respirator in a shock unit - Stock Image - N560/0019
Mental patient wearing respirator in a shock unit
"Pankhurst was horrified by the screams of women being force-fed during hunger strikes. In her autobiography she wrote: 'I shall never while I live forget the suffering I experienced during the days when those cries were ringing in my ears.'" Force Feeding, Suffragette Movement, Suffrage Movement, Suffragette, Suffrage, Society Problems, Historical Photos, Punishment, Hunger
Emmeline Pankhurst - Wikipedia
"Pankhurst was horrified by the screams of women being force-fed during hunger strikes. In her autobiography she wrote: 'I shall never while I live forget the suffering I experienced during the days when those cries were ringing in my ears.'"
Lewis Hine - Little Orphan Annie in a Pittsburgh Institution, 1910 Vintage Photos, Portrait, Vintage, Old Photos, Photographer, Old Pictures, Olds, Vintage Photography
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Lewis Hine - Little Orphan Annie in a Pittsburgh Institution, 1910
Richard Avedon. Mental Institution #21, East Louisiana State Mental Hospital, 1963 Models, Richard Avedon
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Richard Avedon. Mental Institution #21, East Louisiana State Mental Hospital, 1963
Continuous bath, photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt at Pilgrim State Hospital in 1936 Pilgrim State Hospital, Hospital Photos, Psychiatric Medications, Health History
Continuous Bath Time
Continuous bath, photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt at Pilgrim State Hospital in 1936
Démence Précoce Catatonique Dermographisme. L Trepsat, 1893. From 'Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtrière', 1904.    During the second hald of the 19th century, the belief spread that the phenomenon of dermatographism (or 'dermographism', or 'skin writing') was linked to hysteria and other mental or nervous disorders. Here a female patient at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris has had her diagnosis 'Démence précoce' (dementia praecox) 'written' on her back Female, Fotografia, Klinik, Sigmund Freud, The Past, Mental
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Démence Précoce Catatonique Dermographisme. L Trepsat, 1893. From 'Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtrière', 1904. During the second hald of the 19th century, the belief spread that the phenomenon of dermatographism (or 'dermographism', or 'skin writing') was linked to hysteria and other mental or nervous disorders. Here a female patient at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris has had her diagnosis 'Démence précoce' (dementia praecox) 'written' on her back
state insane asylum band, topeka kansas, early 20C Music, Crazy People, Kansas, Kansas Photos, Yeah, Topeka Kansas, Old Things
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state insane asylum band, topeka kansas, early 20C