Mental Health In The 1800s

Mental health is a disease people have experienced since the beginning of time. Mild to severe disturbances in behavior and/or thoughts are the effects of a mental illness. More than 200 forms of mental illnesses have been classified. In the ancient period the Egyptians “documented” disordered states of attention and concentration and emotional distress in the mind or heart, which later became known as melancholy and hysteria. Somatic treatments usually involved reciting magic spells and applying bodily fluids. If insanity means the inability to use rational thought, does that mean, in fact, many who claim to be insane are indeed able to use rational thought making them sane?
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In the late 1800s Boston’s population was around 177,840. In 1860 on October 18, Edward VII of the United Kingdom visited Boston, Young’s Hotel started for business, the Public Garden and Gibson House were built, and the Old Feather Store was demolished. There were limited asylums scattered around Boston in the early 1800s. Asylums in the 1800s were merely nothing but stables for the mentally ill. Before the farm building were constructed into asylums and hospitals, the mentally ill were thrown in stables with nothing but straw and treated like farm animals. As time progressed, farm buildings were turned into hospitals and asylums, and patient treatment became a little less foul. Austin Farm housed women and Pierce Farm became the Department for Men. Buildings were designed by a city architect, Edmund March Wheelwright. The Boston Lunatic Asylum was founded in 1839 and was later known as the Boston State Hospital when the new building was built in 1895. By the late 1800s there was a wide variety of institutes built in Massachusetts. The State Almshouse could hold 50 insane men after new buildings were constructed. In all, the State Almshouse received 90,914 inmates. The State Farm contains a pauper/prison department and lunatic ward. So-called insane criminals occupied the lunatic ward, claiming they had some kind of mental illness. State Farm had a total of 400 acres and the buildings were in good condition. The Danvers Lunatic Hospital was located in the town of Danvers, Essex county. Legislature purchased a farm owned by Francis Dodge for building on an additional building to The Danvers Lunatic Hospital. Over one third of the inmates engaged in out-door and in-door work, with roughly over 200 acres. The Northampton Lunatic Hospital had assorted buildings for male employees, female employees, and patients. Northamptons Lunatic Hospital was not very