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    Early photographic portrait of Dorothea Dix, posed seated, in an oval frame.
    A man is sitting on a straw bed in a prison; he is wearing a shoulder harness which is chained to the wall behind him.
    A powerfully built, angry looking man is sitting on the floor, arms folded and knees are drawn up close, his head is turned to the left; his wrists and ankles are in irons which are chained to the wall
    Illustration of Elizabeth Packard being taken to a mental institution against her will, carried by two men onto an awaiting train with many male and female onlookers
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    A man is sitting on a straw bed in a prison; he is wearing a shoulder harness which is chained to the wall behind him.

    Chained in Bedlam

    A mental patient at Bedlam Hospital, London, from Etienne Equirol’s Des Maladies Mentales Considerees Sous les Rapports Medicale, Hygienique et Medico-Legal, Paris, 1838.

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