Haunted Asylums, Morgues & Cemeteries Quotes

“When the Doctors were not dragging screaming patients away to the operating rooms, they would experiment in other ways by designing the most uncomfortable and painful ‘treatments,’ such as hosing patients down on a regular basis with ice cold blasts of water, or forcing them into steel cages or boxes, to be kept there until they calmed down, or tying them almost permanently to their beds, with the restrained patient barely able to move their limbs at all. This could last for days, weeks.”
― Stephen Young, Haunted Asylums, Morgues & Cemeteries

“At the Trans Allegheny Asylum in Virginia, the list of reasons for admittance found in an official document, included such randomness as; ‘Greediness,’ ‘Asthma,’ ‘Political excitement,’ ‘Religious enthusiasm,’ ‘Desertion of husband,’ ‘Time of life,’ ‘Superstition,’ ‘Hard study,’ ‘Over action of the Mind,’ ‘Tobacco,’ ‘Imaginary female trouble,’ ‘Laziness,’ and, ‘Novel Reading!”
― Stephen Young, Haunted Asylums, Morgues & Cemeteries