The world of medicine wasn't as advanced as it is today. There have been many different ways of dealing with diseases and sicknesses. But when it was about mental problems, it was probably more difficult than the others because it's not seen like an open wound or a runny nose. Perhaps one of the most brutal methods to treat the mentally ill was hydrotherapy. You can be glad that it's not used anymore to treat patients.
Or from another point of view, it's an isolated place built to protect the people who are inside from the ones that are outside, and also protect the people outside from the ones inside.
If they do it for the treatment of those inside, throughout history, unimaginable methods have been tried and their mind has been deeply carved.
Frontal lobotomy, ie, operation of the frontal lobe of the brain, was a very popular treatment method in the early 20th century and was strongly recommended by psychiatrists.
This method was used for depression, personality disorders, and even mental retardation.
Hydrotherapy was a method developed to treat patients who were mentally unstable and were experiencing psychological problems.
Hyperactive patients were kept in boiling water while patients with low mobility and lethargy were kept in ice-cold water.
Another method used in hydrotherapy was to apply towels that were kept in very cold or very hot water to the patient's body.
However, when the desired development process was not achieved, they took things a step further.
A patient who was mentally unbalanced was crucified in the Bedlam Mental Hospital in London and they sprayed high pressure cold water on him.
Today, hydrotherapy is a medical discipline within the scope of physiotherapy which involves working on the removal and treatment of pain by using water.
Of course, without the intention of treating mentally ill...