Tuesday 3 March 2015

The Horrible History Of The World's Most Notorious Mental Asylum

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It started innocently enough, as a charitable institution. But eventually, Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, UK, became known as Bedlam, one of the worst places in the entire world. Although the hospital became a modern psychiatric facility, historically it was representative of the worst excesses of asylums in the era of lunacy reform.

(via Miss Cellania)

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