Selina Baiss, from Shepton Mallet, was said to be "demented, incoherent and noisy" and had been an asylum patient for 38 years ... in the moral treatment of the insane. He believed in kindness ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 2. -- Dr. A.H. Tobey, the famous alienist who for years was Superintendent of the State Insane Asylum at Toledo, Ohio, is now an inmate of the same institution. View Full Arti ...

They were searching for places patients had been buried ... spot for a memorial to honor those who had lived and died at the asylum, which opened its doors in 1911 and closed in 2004.

Founded in 1855 and closed in 1935, the asylum treated tens of thousands of patients, around 7,000 of ... Related: ...

North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum in Denbigh ... Other soldiers became patients after getting syphilis: "They ended up as what we called GPI - general paralysis of the insane ...

In 1867, the 17-year-old allegedly poisoned ... she was sent to the Toronto Lunatic Asylum as one of its earliest patients. There, she was declared criminally insane. Sketches of Grace Marks ...