Forced vomiting and diarrhoea, bleeding, blistering with hot irons, spinning and cold water immersion were all recommended - ...

Step inside a massive abandoned insane asylum built in the 1800s — completely alone. With working power and endless dark hallways, every moment feels like stepping back in time. Shot in stunning ...

In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served as catch-all facilities for violent and difficult women. But were they really criminals? Or even crazy? Or just rebelling against the social ...

They are former patients of the state’s first mental institution ... giving researchers insight into life in the asylum in the 1800s and early 1900s. “It would be a unique resource for ...

Then, in the Progressive Era that began in the late 1800s, eugenics ... reformers challenged ideas about mental illness that had justified the existence of asylums and many psychiatric hospitals.

To understand Bellevue Asylum’s history, we must return to the year 1800, when Trustees of the ... and those who were considered “insane.” By 1880, all inmates from the North Locust Street ...