Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
100

Name one of the “treatments” discussed in chapter 1.

-Blistering

-Bleeding

-Drowning

-Spinning

-Nausea Induction

-Tranquilizer Chair

100

Name one thing patients were allowed to do at the facility ran by Quakers?

-Sew

-Garden

-Read

-Write

-Play games

100

What is the definition of ”eugenics”?

The carriers of “bad germs” or the undesirables.

100

What was the prolonged bath?

Patients were put in a hammock and submerged into a tub where a canvas cover was over them with a hole for their head. They were held there for many days.

100

What is a lobotomy?

Surgery to sever connections between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain.

200

Who were the people that petitioned for medical treatment to bring sanity to the mad?

Quakers

200

TRUE or FALSE: Kirkbride was not successful in helping patients.

FALSE

200

Which world leader was an advocate for eugenics?

Adolf Hitler

200

TRUE or FALSE: The eugenics agenda was driven primarily by people outside medicine.

TRUE

200

What happened to Phineas Gage?

He was involved in an explosion that cause a pole to go through his cheek and through his frontal lobes.

300

Boarding houses were used for which two reasons in London?

1. For families to get a loved one help.

2. For families to get rid of a family member they didn’t want around.

300

TRUE or FALSE: Few needed to be confined in the institution ran by the Quakers.

TRUE

300

Who were thought to be prominent carriers of the bad germ plasma?

Immigrants

300

Henry Cotton thought he could help patients by removing what thing?

Their teeth

300

What did Walter Freeman do in his classes that was seen as odd?

He performed in-class autopsies.

400

Why do historians think King George III ACTUALLY got better?

He had a rare genetic disorder called porphyria which causes toxins in the body to then cause temporary delirium.

400

Why were the Quakers shunned?

They refused to pay tithes, bear arms, or show obedience to the king.

400

Which state was the first to pass a compulsory sterilization law?

Indiana

400

Small doses of insulin was known to help who?

Morphine addicts

400

How did Moniz sever the brain fibers on his first patient?

He drilled holes in her skull and squirted alcohol into the exposed fibers.

500

Before the American Revolution, what percent of 3500 doctors in America had degrees?

Fewer than 5%

500

What does AMSAII stand for?

Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane

500

Why were the mentally “unfit” sent to “detention”?

So they could be held there until they passed reproductive age or were sterilized.

500

What was the “elixir of life”?

Metrazol treatment

500

What were patients’ behavior described as after having a lobotomy?

Childish

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