Hydro-therapy in public psychiatric hospitals

Presented without comment.

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, CO Hydrotherapy room

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, CO Hydrotherapy room

 

Hydro-therapy room, Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver Colorado.

Hydropathic Room - Davis House

Hydropathic Room – Davis House

Hydrotherapy Department, New Orleans Marine Hospital

Hydrotherapy Department, New Orleans Marine Hospital

Patient undergoing hydrotherapy treatment - 1950s

Patient undergoing hydrotherapy treatment – 1950s

Patient undergoing hydrotherapy treatment

Patient undergoing hydrotherapy treatment

Dr. Dean Brooks is shown with the hydrotherapy console that a patient uses to break a window and escape from the mental hospital in the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Brooks also appeared in the movie as a psychiatrist.

Dr. Dean Brooks is shown with the hydrotherapy console that a patient uses to break a window and escape from the mental hospital in the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Brooks also appeared in the movie as a psychiatrist.

Read – Dr. Dean Brooks dies at 96; key figure in filming ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’, from the Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2011