4,081 Comments for Norwich State Hospital
urban explorer wrote:
i was just curious what buliding this was in cause i know where the hospital is and ive visited there and only got to explore the chapel and some kind of basment and a few administration buildings but i dont recognize these pics
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Gustav wrote:
Motts,
¿How you got inside this places?
What do you feel one time you are in there?
¿How you got inside this places?
What do you feel one time you are in there?
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Salmonella wrote:
This is a hospital? Looks like a mansion!
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Salmonella wrote:
Someone brought their kid here? WTF?
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Salmonella wrote:
WOW! this building is actually NICE!!
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Jessica wrote:
Instructions on how to open locked or decayed doors : Kick in.
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Jessica wrote:
Remeber (people who are translating) that Latin can be written in any order. qui transtulit sustini could just as well be transtulit qui sustini.
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Peaches wrote:
Thanks Lynne! OMG!!! Please tell me they had "Nemesis Basins" on hand for this one!! Doesn't seam too theraputic to me!!
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Lynne wrote:
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.
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.
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