Buell Hall is the only reminder of the lost Bloomingdale Asylum and the battle between real estate and mental health in ...

The physicians in the City Insane Asylum on Ward's Island take their meals together, and patients who are tractable and well disposed act as waiters. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 2. -- Dr. A.H. Tobey, the famous alienist who for years was Superintendent of the State Insane Asylum at Toledo, Ohio, is now an inmate of the same institution. View Full Arti ...

The orbital lobotomy was a surgery that gained popularity in the late 1940s as a way of treating the most dangerous mentally ...

Selina Baiss, from Shepton Mallet, was said to be "demented, incoherent and noisy" and had been an asylum patient for 38 years "They were called lunatics and imbeciles, idiots. The terms dementia ...

when the facility was known as the Insane Asylum of Arizona. The dashboard includes data about patients in both the 117-bed civil side of the hospital and in the 143-bed forensic side, as well as ...