Circumcision
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I was recently reading about this american doctor, a psychiatrist, who developed an unique method of treatment of mental illnesses, this was before the invention of lobotomy, but for about the same price:
First, the patient's teeth were removed, starting with molars. If it didn't help, the patient's tonsils and adenoids were removed. When it appeared that the glands were not the cause of the disease, the patient's genitals, bladder and rectum were removed. And so on, until he was fully cured.
Since this was also before the invention of antibiotics, sepsis and infections were almost universal, so that the recovery was inevitable in one form or another, hehe...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad…
"An 18 year-old girl with agitated depression [who]
successively had her upper and lower molars extracted, a
tonsillectomy, sinus drainage, treatment for an infected
cervix, removal of intestinal adhesions -- all without
effecting improvement in her psychiatric condition. Then
the remainder of her teeth were removed and she was sent
home, pronounced cured".Cure of masturbation and other mental illnesses by circumcision, castration, and burning of the clitoris was a common practice in america in the middle 19th century until the late 1950s, in 1920 many states had passed laws on compulsory castration of criminals, the mentally ill, blind, deaf, and other undesirable citizens. For the most part, these laws were repealed in 1960.
Circumcision is still practiced in US -- not for the treatment of insanity of masturbation, as originally intended, but by tradition. But there is really not much difference. Too bad its not the complete removal of teeth and rectum