Asylum Tour Of The Past
Serbian Psychiatric Hospital. Photo taken by Goerge Georgiou who worked in Kosovo and Serbia between 1999 and 2002
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Female patients receiving Radium Therapy, early 20th century
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An insane asylum patient restrained by warders, Yorkshire, 1869, Henry Clarke.
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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.
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A chronic schizophrenic patient stands in a catatonic position. He maintained this uncomfortable position for hours.
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Pilgrim State Hospital Brentwood NY, USA circa 1940
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Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry. Man in restrains, B, violent ward. 1945
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Cuenca, Spain, 1961 Insane asylum
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Patients in steam cabinets, circa 1910
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An X-ray image of needles driven into the flesh by a psychiatric patient.
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Abandoned asylum, Limbiate, Italy
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Hydrotherapy first used in the early 1900s, Immersion in a tub of water to make a patient relax when agitated or relieve some ailment, lasted a few hours to overnight. 1936
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Sunland Asylum. Dr. Freeman, the quack who invented lobotomies. The procedure turned most problem patients into zombies.
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Patient in restraint chair at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire circa 1869
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