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That must've left peoples asses feeling sore!

That must've been amazing to watch a child being born!

have any of you really thought what is the real meaning for the clock tower?

Damn!!! Why didn't they just leave the place empty instead!!!

I've had a grand mal seizure before. You feel like pure shit when the seizures over.

Thanks Lynne! OMG!!! Please tell me they had "Nemesis Basins" on hand for this one!! Doesn't seam too theraputic to me!!

Doesn't anything that reads DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE make you want to go near it even more? The sign makes it more intriguing.

http://encarta.msn.com..._Mental_Illness.html

I would most likely fall to my death here.

Spinning chairs? Do tell!!

The BODY FARM! :-)

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Wabisabi,

Perhaps you are thinking of the Utica crib, utilized in the 1800s. They have not been used, to the best of my knowledge, since that time, and they were never made of metal. Here is a pic of a Utica crib:

http://www.uihealthcar...iagnostik/utica.html http://www.indiana.edu/%7Emedhist/dwyer.htm

Also, check out the interesting comment about the Utica crib here: http://www.omh.state.n...hq/q0900/archive.htm

Again, this was developed WAY back when the only other (legal) alternatives were beatings, chaining someone to the wall, spinning chairs, locking people in rooms (usually attics or cellars), putting people in cages outdoors, and/or true ice cold water "therapy", and given the culture at the time, it was STILL initially believed that any or all of these techniques might be therapeutic, given what was believed about people with mental illness then. Again, many of these devices were developed because people back then didn't have any other ideas as to what to do, and as time went by, they WERE used for "staff convenience," since nothing else was offered in the way of alternatives.

I can fairly well guarantee that a bed such as this was never legally or therapeutically utilized for restraint in the last 100 years. As to what some people will develop and/or use when left to their own devices, either because they had no other resources or because they were sick individuals, I can't comment.

Lyric, That is exactly why I want my body donated to medical science.

I'm not allowed to comment on anything having to do with size. ~Me put a muzzle on me sometime back. :-(

Amounts of impressive magnitude....