Although I'm not sure they are accurate. In the book he is treated to cold therapeutic baths that remind me of water torture, strapped down, and placed in confinement.
Don't know how accurate it is for that specific time period, but it is accurate for the 19th Century. It was mentioned as a 'treatment' in Bryson's At Home non-fiction, and it's also in the Darwin movie Evolution as he subjected his poor daughter to it, as well as himself (as he suffered from depression and some other poorly understood malady). He even had one built at his home so that he could do it to himself.
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Date: 2012-06-29 02:31 am (UTC)Don't know how accurate it is for that specific time period, but it is accurate for the 19th Century. It was mentioned as a 'treatment' in Bryson's At Home non-fiction, and it's also in the Darwin movie Evolution as he subjected his poor daughter to it, as well as himself (as he suffered from depression and some other poorly understood malady). He even had one built at his home so that he could do it to himself.