'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

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Originally Posted by jason taylor

What was the normal treatment for that at the time, anyone?

At this time there was a change from either no treatment at all or exorcism
(sometimes even execution) to locking people away in asylums without any
treatment. Psychiatric medicine did not exist in the west between the time
of the Romans and the early 19th century, and what was done to the psy-
chiatric patients during the 19th century can hardly be called medicine.