How they were treated mentally ill people?

It is said that the fifties radically changed the face of psychiatry. Why? Yes, because there was chlorpromazine (Aminazine). And after - other antipsychotics. And yet - antidepressants. And off we go. According to the teachers, with the beginning of the era of neuroleptics remained mentally ill people - is the classic version that existed before many centuries. Now, a psychiatrist at hand there is a whole arsenal of magic pills and injections - a bad mood, from the surveillance of special services, from cosmic rays and an alien invasion - yes anything. Not only intelligence potion, powder charisma vaccination conscience and so on trifles. And yes, still no one really knows what's going on in the head and taken from schizophrenia. But now there is an opportunity not to keep patients in isolation from society for life.

The logical question is: what is treated psychiatric patients to the fifties? Here is a brief overview of the methods - so as to get a general idea.
The ancient Greeks to the mentally ill were pretty harsh - and may break and hit by stones. According to some reports, particularly frenzied could put in shoes or put on the electric ray (as we see, electroconvulsive therapy foundations date back to the fifth century BC).

The Romans offered their options: make sure that there was no constipation (this despite the melancholy), to connect and keep in the dark (when the tumult and fury), give an emetic, and in time to connect with the hallucinations and delusions (if does not work, prescribe fasting and healing pills It recommended Celsus). A treat epilepsy offered gladiator blood. You can try Epifamin.

Pretty diverse approaches were in medieval Europe, the treatment of mental illness. Patients are often kept in monasteries and enjoy the exorcism. Hot iron and therapeutic autos used infrequently. For the treatment of melancholy offered eat pork heart, stuffed with herbs. We used as rods (to give the diversion of material because of mania), mustard plasters on the whole person (in order to thin out the blood stagnant in melancholia), bloodletting and, as an act of unbridled humanism - warm bath. In Switzerland, in a shelter in the vicinity of Zurich, practiced on the content chain, and daily delivery of wine for medicinal purposes. Hellebore water is widely used - like lice on the head, and cockroaches inside (it is now, by the way, sometimes pour alcoholics caring wife, in full compliance with the instructions supplied)).

In Europe of the 18th century continue to actively use hellebore water (it was used in psychiatry for a long time) and practiced a cold douche. The British, instead of ropes and shackles are starting to use the Grey vest - a prototype of a straitjacket. However, in the Bedlam still allowed onlookers (one pence per input), and the weekend here full. The French, through the efforts of François Pinel also waive the content of patients in shackles and start using straitjackets - the beginning of the century 19th. Style is relevant to this day.

In the 19th century to the mentally ill doctors are beginning to show more interest, coupled with boundless imagination. So there are a penitentiary chair strait bed rotational bed and rotational machine (it's the blood rushing to the head and brain work better), for the unexpected immersion device in the pool with cold water and ice shower head from the hose (prototype Sharko shower, this method appears a little later in the same century). Popular leeches (10-12 pieces per head) in combination with a wrap cold wet towels and salt laxative (the practice of the ancient Greeks are not forgotten). Included in the fashion treatment with morphine and cannabis. There are the first sprouts of psychotherapy. All hypnosis is widely practiced. There are drugs bromine and barbituric acid: veronal, medinal. Begin to use chloral hydrate and paraldehyde.

In the 20th century (its first half) piggy treatments for mental illness replenished malaria therapy (vaccination of malaria were treated with progressive paralysis), and then injections sulfozinum as well as electro-convulsive and insulin-comatose therapy. Apart lobotomy. And finally, there are neuroleptics, antidepressants and other psychiatric magic suitcase contents. The vaccine against Alzheimer's disease are waiting for this, the 21st century, and since vaccinations conscience and intelligence potion is still tight.