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What Happened When Oregon Sent Its Most Troubled Mental-Health Patients Into the Woods

Continuous-flow bath is the best method for calming excited mental cases. With their bodies greased, the patients can remain in the baths for hours, gradually fall asleep." history

Strangers to Reason: LIFE Inside a Psychiatric Hospital, 1938

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