The tranquilizing chair of Benjamin Rush. A mental patient is strapped into a chair with a box-like apparatus is used to confine the head, and a bucket toilet attached beneath the seat. Rush believed insanity was an inflammation of the brain related to blood flow. The immobilizing chair was supposed to reduce blood flow, hence tranquilizing the patient.
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