Mental Illness Photograph - Mental Patient Being Treated In A Gyrating Chair by Science Photo Library

Mental Patient Being Treated In A Gyrating Chair is a photograph by Science Photo Library which was uploaded on September 16th, 2018.

Mental Patient Being Treated In A Gyrating Chair

Gyrating chair. Historical artwork of a psychiatric patient being treated in a gyrating chair in a mental asylum. The chair, designed by American... more

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Mental Patient Being Treated In A Gyrating Chair

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Gyrating chair. Historical artwork of a psychiatric patient being treated in a gyrating chair in a mental asylum. The chair, designed by American doctor Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), was thought to increase the blood supply to the brain. Rush was an influential physician who tried to establish humane conditions for the treatment of the insane and is regarded as the father of American psychiatry. However, he also believed that insanity could be cured by bleeding and purging the patient.

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September 16th, 2018