Hey Guys!
I'm not a big fan of posting in my regional forum and then again in the Photography forum, but this has generated some pretty hard core interest and response elsewhere so I wanted to share here.
A while back RiddimRyder, MonkeyLunk and I explored a vacant Psychiatric Hospital and we found a very cool library stocked with old medical journals and publications dating back to very early 1900's.
In among all these books and journals was a curious little box labeled
"Symptom Index"
Here is what it looked like
Vacant Psychiatric Hospital Library - Symptom Index by Freaktography, on Flickr I had posted these, and other shots in the usual places - the horizontal shot made the front page of Reddit and the comments were full of people wanting to know what the cards said, same with my original post in the Ontario forum. So I went back to the hospital and set up my 35mm and tripod and started to document the best of the batch - there are hundreds of these cards to be read.
Here is a small selection below of some of those cards and the results of studies done on patients to cure them of things like homosexuality, transvestism, pedophilia, rape, head banging, fire starting and many others. They list the name of the Doctor, the publication to find the whole study and it includes a summary of what the treatment was and how successful it was or was not.
These may be offensive to some, but no doubt interesting to all!!
I don't mean to click-bait, but the rest of them can be found here on my photo blog should you wish to see more of these.
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