Trans Allegheny Lunatic AsylumReasons for Admission (1864 to 1889) |
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Intemperance & Business trouble | Dissolute habits | Kicked in the head by a horse |
Hereditary predisposition | Domestic affliction | Domestic trouble |
Ill treatment by husband | Dropsy | Imaginary female trouble |
Egotism | Hysteria | Epileptic fits |
Immoral life | Excessive sexual abuse | Imprisonment |
Excitement as officer | Jealosy and religion | Exposure and Hereditary |
Laziness | Exposure and quackery | Marriage of son |
Exposure in army | Masturbation and syphillus | Fever and jealousy |
Masturbation for 30 years | Fighting fire | Medicine to prevent conception |
Supressed masturbation | Menstrual deranged | Suppression on menses |
Mental excitement | The war | Novel reading |
Time of life | Hymphomania | Uterine rerangement |
Opium habit | Venereal excesses | Over action of the mind |
Vicious vices | Overstudy of religion | Women trouble |
Overtaxing mental powers | Superstition | Parents were cousins |
Shooting of daughter | Periodic fits | Small pox |
Tobacco and masturbation | Snuff eating for two years | Political excitement |
Spinal iritation | Politics | Gathering in the head |
Religious enthusiasm | Greediness | Fever and loss of law suit |
Grief | Fits and desertion of husband | Gunshot wound |
Asthma | Hard study | Bad company |
Bad habits and political excitement | Salvation army | Bad whiskey |
Scarlatina | Body flux | Seduction and disappointment |
Brain fever | Self abuse | Business nerves |
Sexual abuse and stimulants | Carbonic acid gas | Sexual derangement |
Congestion of brain | False confinement | Death of sons in war |
Feebleness of intellect | Decoyed into the army | Fell from horse in war |
Deranged masturbation | Female disease | Desertion by husband |
Dissipation of nerves |
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