Tag: Bad Medicine
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Some thoughts on medical tyranny
Let us confront the GRAND DELUSION that has befallen our medical establishment! Once bastions of reason, these white-coated charlatans have succumbed to a most pernicious affliction: believing their own balderdash. Gone are the days when a doctor could ponder life’s great mysteries over a fine cigar. No, now we are subjected to the tyranny of…
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Sensory Deprivation toilet chair for the Mentally Unstable
Imagine walking into a room and seeing a contraption that looks like a cross between a medieval torture rack and a porta-potty. Welcome to Benjamin Rush’s Tranquilizing Chair, the 18th century’s answer to the question, “How can we make mental illness even more fun… for us?” In 1810, Rush, the “Father of American Psychiatry” (because…