I shall put you into the asylum! part one
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Elizabeth Packard's husband committed his wife to an Illinois insane asylum for refusing to accept his viewpoints.
click here to play audioIn Washington State, where I lived, I heard references to Northern State Mental Hospital located in Sedro Woolley. A hospital for the insane! From 1909 until 1973, it housed tens of thousands of patients. I think the public assumed that perhaps cures were available there. At least the insane were out of sight...