Horrifying Images Of Vintage Insane Asylums

Featured 03/28/2016 in creepy

Take a creepy medical tour of the past.

1. You could be admitted to an asylum for being "lazy" or "masturbation for 30 years".
2. A mask used to keep patients from biting people.
3. 20th century radium therapy probably did more harm than good.
4. Patient in a straightjacket.
5. Pieces of patients' brains stored in wax from the early 1800's.
6. A device used to deliver a "sleeping massage" was thought to help calm patients.
7. This photo (1961) from a Spanish asylum seems to be some type of cruel punishment or restraining device.
8. Creepy wall art seen in an abandoned institution in Italy.
9. A patient receiving a Diathermia treatment (sending a jolt of electricity through the patient's brain).
10. Patients in the sauna. It was once thought that steam could cure mental disorders.
11. An abstract drawing done by a schizophrenic patient.
12. Lobotomy tools.
13.
14. "Group Therapy"
15. A common type of restraint chair.

1. You could be admitted to an asylum for being "lazy" or "masturbation for 30 years".
2. A mask used to keep patients from biting people.
3. 20th century radium therapy probably did more harm than good.
4. Patient in a straightjacket.
5. Pieces of patients' brains stored in wax from the early 1800's.
6. A device used to deliver a "sleeping massage" was thought to help calm patients.
7. This photo (1961) from a Spanish asylum seems to be some type of cruel punishment or restraining device.
8. Creepy wall art seen in an abandoned institution in Italy.
9. A patient receiving a Diathermia treatment (sending a jolt of electricity through the patient's brain).
10. Patients in the sauna. It was once thought that steam could cure mental disorders.
11. An abstract drawing done by a schizophrenic patient.
12. Lobotomy tools.
13.
14. "Group Therapy"
15. A common type of restraint chair.