What medications for mental illness were used in the 1800s?

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It was ugly.no defined form of treatment certainly not "shock treatments" or ECTs. People who were considered mentally unstable were locked away in institutions and caged like animals. Men at that time could dispose of a wife by having her declared insane..the sane and insane were one and the same as far as their treatment.locked up and left in places such as Bedlam..etc.

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Alcohol and shock treatments!

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there were no medications people were just put in institutions or killed

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NONE!! That's why alot of people died unnecessarily, or they committed suicide.

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Back then they said mentally ill people were "cursed by the devil" and they treated them like monkeys in cages! Dang, i'm glad i live in this century or i'd be in big trouble.:)

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this is a good site for information on mental illness in the past.

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/mhhglo.htm

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