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

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