Today on Caustic Soda your hosts Kevin, Joe, and Toren are joined once again by Dr. Rob. We discuss the gruesome, horrible "treatments" from the past and present. Lobotomies, electro-convulsive therapy, beatings and trepanning -- there's a long history of disgusting, painful and dangerous methods and we cover them all!



This episode's musical interlude is "Mairzy Doats" performed by Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers










Links

BC Eugenics
Drapetomania
Nellie Bly's "Ten Days in a Madhouse"
Bedlam - 1946 Life Magazine
The Snake Pit on IMDB

Movie Reviews

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Toren: 8/10
Kevin: 10/10
Joe: 9/10

A Beautiful Mind
Toren: 7/10
Kevin: 8/10
Joe: 9/10

The Snake Pit (1948)
imdb: 7.8/10