Chapter 1
Name one of the “treatments” discussed in chapter 1.
-Blistering
-Bleeding
-Drowning
-Spinning
-Nausea Induction
-Tranquilizer Chair
Name one thing patients were allowed to do at the facility ran by Quakers?
-Sew
-Garden
-Read
-Write
-Play games
What is the definition of ”eugenics”?
The carriers of “bad germs” or the undesirables.
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.
What is a lobotomy?
Surgery to sever connections between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain.
Who were the people that petitioned for medical treatment to bring sanity to the mad?
Quakers
TRUE or FALSE: Kirkbride was not successful in helping patients.
FALSE
Which world leader was an advocate for eugenics?
Adolf Hitler
TRUE or FALSE: The eugenics agenda was driven primarily by people outside medicine.
TRUE
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.
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.
TRUE or FALSE: Few needed to be confined in the institution ran by the Quakers.
TRUE
Who were thought to be prominent carriers of the bad germ plasma?
Immigrants
Henry Cotton thought he could help patients by removing what thing?
Their teeth
What did Walter Freeman do in his classes that was seen as odd?
He performed in-class autopsies.
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.
Why were the Quakers shunned?
They refused to pay tithes, bear arms, or show obedience to the king.
Which state was the first to pass a compulsory sterilization law?
Indiana
Small doses of insulin was known to help who?
Morphine addicts
How did Moniz sever the brain fibers on his first patient?
He drilled holes in her skull and squirted alcohol into the exposed fibers.
Before the American Revolution, what percent of 3500 doctors in America had degrees?
Fewer than 5%
What does AMSAII stand for?
Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane
Why were the mentally “unfit” sent to “detention”?
So they could be held there until they passed reproductive age or were sterilized.
What was the “elixir of life”?
Metrazol treatment
What were patients’ behavior described as after having a lobotomy?
Childish