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3. A patient in a restraining chair at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England in
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4. A nurse prepares a patient for electro-shock therapy in Central State Hospital in Kentucky, US in 1951.
5. Mental patients participating in Dance Therapy in New York State Asylum, U.S in 1922.

6. A woman is restrained in an Asylum in France in 1900.

7. Two doctors show off the large electro-shock machine at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. in
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8. Women receiving radium therapy in the Serbian Psychiatric Hospital in Serbia in 1907.

9. Patients wrapped in large wet towels with wet cloths on their heads for hydrotherapy (continuous
showers, baths and being wet) in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1886.
10. Hydrotherapy was first used in the early 1900s. Immersion in a tub of water to make a patient relax
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