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Re: nasty treatments in psychiatry in 1800's

Posted by schleprock on October 4, 2012, at 23:34:36

In reply to nasty treatments in psychiatry in 1800's, posted by rjlockhart37 on October 4, 2012, at 22:07:44

> i've been doing some resarch on this...the medication they had where VERY limited, this was before barbs and antipsyhoctics...the only thing they had was choral hydrate, alcohol[yes they used it in medical treatment] opium and morphine...there's another one that I can't pronounce....but that's all they had...and of course the nasty bromide salts that where harsh way of sedating someone.
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> They used to use tranquilizing chairs...for out of control patients nad they let them stay there for ... who knows... but none of this was ever used with mediation, they used to litterly bleed the person to reduce pressure and make them slow down, awful. in the 1700's it was even worse because they didnt have choral hydate...they would lock em up in doungens away from society in nasty conditions, no sunlight. Don't ask about the 1600's.
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> The hospitals back then could house thousands but I mean with out medication to help, they where brutal in locking people in small cages, i've seen images of long ago treatments, they where insane themselves for creating these brutal treatments with nothing but to lower the quality of life for that person.
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> well...ill reserach what I can maybe post some stuff about this, but im telling it must have been bad...
>

Research "Willowbrook Institution" "Staten Island". It wasn't just the 1800s.


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