Horrifying Images Of Vintage Insane Asylums
Featured 03/28/2016
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Take a creepy medical tour of the past.
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1. You could be admitted to an asylum for being "lazy" or "masturbation for 30 years".
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2. A mask used to keep patients from biting people.
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3. 20th century radium therapy probably did more harm than good.
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4. Patient in a straightjacket.
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5. Pieces of patients' brains stored in wax from the early 1800's.
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6. A device used to deliver a "sleeping massage" was thought to help calm patients.
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7. This photo (1961) from a Spanish asylum seems to be some type of cruel punishment or restraining device.
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8. Creepy wall art seen in an abandoned institution in Italy.
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9. A patient receiving a Diathermia treatment (sending a jolt of electricity through the patient's brain).
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10. Patients in the sauna. It was once thought that steam could cure mental disorders.
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11. An abstract drawing done by a schizophrenic patient.
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12. Lobotomy tools.
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14. "Group Therapy"
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15. A common type of restraint chair.
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