Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

Reasons for Admission (1864 to 1889)

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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