Terrifying Photos From Inside an Old Insane Asylum
A look into the past to see how mental disorders used to be dealt with.
Published 9 years ago in Wtf
A look into the past to see how mental disorders used to be dealt with.
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Anorexia Nervosa: This 1892 photo was published in Paris, of a teenage girl suffering from "visceral hysteric anorexia," which had developed into cachexia, meaning that the body had become so malnourished that her health couldn't be reversed. Back then, anorexia was thought to only be a disease that teenage girls suffered from.
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