Reasons For Admission To An Asylum 1864-1889
🔴 Intemperance & business trouble
🔴 Kicked in the head by a horse
🔴 Hereditary predisposition
🔴 Ill treatment by husband
🔴 Imaginary female trouble
🔴 Hysteria
🔴 Immoral life
🔴 Imprisonment
🔴 Jealousy and religion
🔴 Laziness
🔴 Marriage of son
🔴 Masturbation & syphilis
🔴 Masturbation for 30 years
🔴 Medicine to prevent conception
🔴 Menstrual deranged
🔴 Mental excitement
🔴 Novel reading
🔴 Nymphomania
🔴 Opium habit
🔴 Over action of the mind
🔴 Dissolute habits
🔴 Domestic affliction
🔴 Domestic trouble
🔴 Dropsy
🔴 Egotism
🔴 Epileptic fits
🔴 Excessive sexual abuse
🔴 Excitement as officer
🔴 Exposure and hereditary
🔴 Exposure and quackery
🔴 Exposure in army
🔴 Fever and jealousy
🔴 Fighting fire
🔴 Suppressed masturbation
🔴 Suppression of menses
🔴 The war
🔴 Time of life
🔴 Uterine derangement
🔴 Venereal excesses
🔴 Vicious vices
🔴 Women trouble
🔴 Superstition
🔴 Shooting of daughter
🔴 Small pox
🔴 Snuff eating for 2 years
🔴 Spinal irritation
🔴 Gathering in the head
🔴 Greediness
🔴 Grief
🔴 Gunshot wound
🔴 Hard study
🔴 Rumor of husband murder
🔴 Salvation army
🔴 Scarlatina
🔴 Seduction & disappointment
🔴 Self abuse
🔴 Sexual abuse & stimulants
🔴 Sexual derangement
🔴 False confinement
🔴 Feebleness of intellect
🔴 Fell from horse in war
🔴 Female disease
🔴 Dissipation of nerves
🔴 Over study of religion
🔴 Over taxing mental powers
🔴 Parents were cousins
🔴 Periodical fits.
🔴 Tobacco & masturbation
🔴 Political excitement
🔴 Politics
🔴 Religious enthusiasm
🔴 Fever and loss of law suit
🔴 Fits and desertion of husband
🔴 Asthma
🔴 Bad company
🔴 Bad habits & political excitement
🔴 Bad whiskey bloody flux
🔴 Brain fever
🔴 Business nerves
🔴 carbonic acid gas
🔴 Congestion of brain
🔴 Death of sons in war
🔴 Decoyed into the army
🔴 Deranged masturbation
🔴 Desertion by husband