CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Bethlem Royal Hospital, Psychoactive Drug, Oral Stage
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Legal de nition ; knowing the nature and quality of the act. Before the 1800s most people believed that mentally ill people were like wild beasts, would apply the wild beast test to see if they are mentally ill. Using leeches ( draw out bad elements in the blood) Water cabinet (metal bath with warm water, shut the door which only their head sticks out to calm them down) Drip water onto forehead (to alive pressure on the brain) Whipping or beating (to try to get them to be submissive) Starvation ( get weak, ght goes out of them) Metal restrains were put over inmates heads which would protect them from those looking for a ght. Nurses would be dressed as police of cers. All reason has own (they have no reason left, talking gibberish, made conspiracy theories out of nothing) Public open institution to see the crazy people .
