The magazine MAQ | Page 35

Relaxing stool

In a literal sense, squeeze the disease. For mental abnormalities, it has been suggested that patients be treated with a chair to which the patient was tied, and under the stool there was a container for the excrement of the sick. It was assumed that, along with human excrement, all the crazy thoughts of a person would have arrived there, after a particular spout had been placed on his head.

Rectal smoke

Tobacco was considered a useful product and many patients were treated in a special chamber, using a particular tube. They have been treated for stomach cramps and parasites.

Wet blanket

Until recently, psychiatric clinics, patients were "wrapped" on wet blankets. If the sick have been recovered or not it is not known, but the fact is certain.

Author: Natalia Morozova

Beat like an anesthesia

A wooden hammer was also used on the head (a raush - anesthesia) or a brief syncope caused by constriction of the neck vessels. But this has rarely been used, since the surgeon's ability was to perform the operation within the time frame within which the patient he was unconscious.

lobotomy

Unexpectedly for the 20th century, lobotomy has reached a painful success in the treatment of schizophrenia. The American doctor Walter Freeman discovered the carving method and perforation on the upper eyelid using a hammer to cut the ice. He usually concentrated further on the touch: He made patients "vegetable." Surprisingly, more than 50,000 people have undergone lobotomy.