arterialtrees: ‘The Tranquillizer’, the name given to this contraption by its inventor, the American
arterialtrees: ‘The Tranquillizer’, the name given to this contraption by its inventor, the American mad-doctor (and “signatory of the Declaration of Independence), Benjamin Rush (1746–1813). Designed to immobilize the patient, and shut out sound and light, it purported to act simultaneously on mind and body, and thus to calm those confined in it. -- source link