The tranquilizing chair of Benjamin Rush. ?
The tranquilizing chair of Benjamin Rush. A mental patient is strapped into a chair with a box-like apparatus is used to confine the head, and a bucket toilet attached beneath the seat. Rush believed insanity was an inflammation of the brain related to bl
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10662340
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45219799
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Mary Evans / Everett Collection
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