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In decades and centuries past, illnesses, both physical and mental were often treated with ineffective, 30 Shocking Historical Photos of
inhumane, and often destructive ways in old insane asylums. People with psychological conditions, the Lviv Pogroms in 1941
especially, tended to be viewed as subhuman. These unfortunate souls were born in the wrong era, and their
The city of Lvov (L’viv) in
stories are heartbreaking.
southeastern Poland was
occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939, under
1. A “Lunatics Chair” given to patients who had poor behavior or wild outbursts in a Dutch mental
the terms of the German-Soviet Pact. There
hospital in 1938.
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25 Fascinating Photographs of
2. Patients receive treatment while restrained in a steam box in Milledgeville State Hospital in Georgia, Debbie Harry From the Period
US in 1908. Before and During Blondie’s
Huge Rise
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3. A patient in a restraining chair at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England in
1869.
4. A nurse prepares a patient for electro-shock therapy in Central State Hospital in Kentucky, US in 1951.
5. Mental patients participating in Dance Therapy in New York State Asylum, U.S in 1922.
9. Patients wrapped in large wet towels with wet cloths on their heads for hydrotherapy (continuous
showers, baths and being wet) in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1886.
10. Hydrotherapy was first used in the early 1900s. Immersion in a tub of water to make a patient relax
when agitated or relieve some ailment would last a few hours to overnight, 1936.
11. A patient undergoing lateral cerebral diathermia treatment in the early 1920's. Diathermia used a
galvanized current to jolt psychosis sufferers. Doctors eventually deemed it unsafe and unreliable.
12. Mechanical slapping massage device at BC sanitarium.
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