#benjaminrush

[ofgraveconcern]

25th October 1829, opening of Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, the first solitary confinement system prison in the United States. Designed in the neo gothic style by the English-born architect John Haviland, the building’s gothic religious aesthetics were intended to impose upon the inmates the feel of a church in which their total restriction from others would result in religious penance, piety and fear; with the light in their cells termed the "Eye of God". The architectural style was influenced by the same aesthetics used throughout England in the 1780’s, for asylums and prisons, again with the same quasi religious medievalism in mind. The solitary system at Eastern State lasted until 1913, and the prison closed in 1970, whereupon it sat slowly crumbling, with its memories and ghosts, until it was opened to the public in 1994. Prior to its opening, a prison reform group was formed by Dr. Benjamin Rush in 1787, Rush also is known as the "father of American psychiatry, for his work ‘Observations and Inquiries upon the Diseases of the Mind’, published in 1812. Rush also as recently highlighted, was the inventor of the ‘the tranquilizer chair’ for use in asylums. Another member of the prison reform group was Benjamin Franklin. In 1842 while touring the eastern US, Charles Dickens visited the prison, later commenting "The System is rigid, strict and hopeless solitary confinement, and I believe it, in its effects, to be cruel and wrong...." and further "He is a man buried alive; to be dug out in the slow round of years; and in the mean time dead to everything but torturing anxieties and horrible despair." The theme of prisons appears (Continued in the comments) #easternstatepenitentiary #solitaryconfinement #neogothic #neogothicarchitecture #eyeofgod #benjaminfranklin #charlesdickens #macabremonday #macabremondays #mentalasylum #asylum #benjaminrush #historyofmadness #historyofmentalhealth #mentalhealthweek #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #psychiatry #historyofpsychology #historyofpsychiatry #prisonhistory #19thcentury #19thcenturyhistory #madnessart #darkhistory #historicalstory #historytales #historicalplaces #morbidhistory #darktales https://www.instagram.com/p/CVdTUFQFIJp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[debnamcareys]

the turn family is such a good idea! i've seen it in loads of other fandoms, but i'm so happy that you brought it here :) the name is sandhya; for characters, can i be robert townsend or major andre? and as for a quote: "i believe we said best out of three." thank you! (- @benjaminrush why can't sideblogs send asks gah)

@benjaminrush

thank you! and welcome to the family, Sandhya !

I’m glad you like the idea as I was p unsure whether this would be a thing or not…but so far it looks good. ( when I joined tumblr 6 yrs ago, these families were veery popular in the anime fandom :D ) 

JOIN THE FAMILY

[boxednomore]

If we fear God and repent...

"Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, 'Yes - if we fear God and repent of our sins.'" - Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Rush, Letters of Benjamin Rush, ed. L. H. Butterfield (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1951), Vol. I, p. 534, to John Adams on February 24, 1790. via The Founders' Bible (Shiloh Road Publishers, LLC, 2017), p. 366.

[benjaminrush]

johnlqurens → benjaminrush

url change! i’ve still got the old one (and a fair amount of others) so if you want any of them hmu

maybe reblog this or something idk

[hemsworths-chris]

my sideblogs

the following are the sideblogs i run! if you see my main blog (@howlingremus) following you, there’s a chance that the stuff on one of my sideblogs, rather than my main blog, is the kind of content you’re blogging, and i don’t want to spam anyone’s dashes with hp content.

@howlingremus is my main blog: it’s primarily harry potter, and it’s where i follow you back from (you’re not obliged to follow me back here if you post different shit lmao i don’t want to clutter your dash)

@verbosities is my writing blog: it’s purely writing (mine and others’)

@disasterburr is my hamilton blog: it’s dedicated to the musical and its canon/characters, not to the actual true events (it isn’t really active anymore)

@phosphoramidon is my resource blog: it’s more for personal reference than anything else

@benjaminrush is my history/turn blog: it’s mainly centered on the american revolution, and on the show turn 

i’m primarily active on @howlingremus​ and @benjaminrush​, so if you wanna talk to me, those are the two best places to do it

hope that cleared things up! i have way too many sideblogs tbh

[ofgraveconcern]

12th October 1773, the first asylum in the American colonies opens in Virginia for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds'. Treatment at the asylum consistent with the standards of the day are brutal, with the use of simulated drowning in ice baths , bleedings, induced vomiting and later electrocution to ‘shock’ insanity out of the patients. By 1790 the asylum built high fenced exercise areas named ‘mad yards’, and attitudes towards mental illness were somewhat lessened by the involvement of Dr. Benjamin Rush, known as the "father of American psychiatry, for his work ‘Observations and Inquiries upon the Diseases of the Mind’, published in 1812. As well as this work Rush also developed ‘the tranquilizer chair’, which was used at the asylum. Rush believed that ‘madness’, was caused by an inflammation of the brain, and as such patients were strapped into the chair and fitted with a head clamp which was supposed to control the flow of blood towards the brain, reduce motor activity, and henceforth reduce ‘madness’. Rush also strongly persisted in his belief on the benefits of bloodletting, a practice also performed at the asylum. Excessive bloodletting as advocated by Rush, was already by the 1790’s becoming questioned as a medical treatment, however Rush’s insistence on the practice, especially during the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, is thought to have hastened the death of Benjamin Franklin, as well as George Washington. In 1799, Rush won a $5,000 libel judgment against British radical journalist and reformer William Cobbett, who accused Rush of bleeding patients to death. (Continued in the comments) #mentalasylum #asylum #benjaminrush #historyofmadness #historyofmentalhealth #mentalhealthweek #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #psychiatry #historyofpsychology #historyofpsychiatry #elizabethfry #elizabethfrysociety #prisons #prisonhistory #newgateprison #19thcentury #19thcenturyhistory #madnessart #williamcobbett #electricshocktherapy #ect #thisweekinhistory #mentalillnessrecovery #darkhistory #historicalstory #historytales #historicalplaces #morbidhistory #darktales https://www.instagram.com/p/CVDjA9HFzXw/?utm_medium=tumblr

[healingwithhorticulture]

Horticulture therapy dates back to Socrates, but it didn't become a scientific pursuit until the 18th century. That's when Benjamin Rush, a psychiatrist and Declaration of Independence cosignatory, began documenting how gardening benefited his mentally ill patients.

NPR, “Can Gardening Help Troubled Minds Heal?”

[wewantinsanebrains]

AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION

Pictured: Benjamin Rush: "Father of Psychology"

American Psychological Association

ALL YOUR PSYCHOLOGY INFO ON ONE WEB! CHECK IT OUT!!!!! 

[ofgraveconcern]

18th August 1774, birth of American explorer, and soldier Meriwether Lewis, who alongside William Clark and Sacagawea as part of the Corp of Discovery would explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase, and the Pacific Northwest. A further part of Lewis and Clark’s mission was also to collect scientific data, including furthering Thomas Jefferson’s interest in archeology and paleontology. Jefferson collected the bones of Mammoths and Mastodons, believing that they could still be living in the unknown west of the continent; Jefferson’s instructions to Lewis and Clark, and their search across the west of the United States, included locating bones, and searching for signs that these creatures still existed. On the 3rd September 1809, Lewis began the journey from New Orleans to Washington D.C. attempting to recuperate denied money that he claimed he was owed by the war Department, as at the time he was on the verge of ruinous debt. Writing his will before the journey, it is also claimed that while on the journey he attempted suicide, but was restained. On the night of October 10th, he stopped near Nashville, and was noted as behaving in a strange manner, talking to himself. During the night gunshots were heard, and Lewis was found with multiple gunshots, with one Nashville newspaper claiming a slashed throat. While is was generally assumed that Lewis has comitted suicide, many inacuracies remain in the case. In 1848 Lewis body was removed for analysis, the commission concluding "it seems to be more probable that he died by the hands of an assassin." The debate continues to this day. (Part Two continued in the comments) #lewisandclark #thursdaytales #lewisandclarktrail #thomasjefferson #mastadons #mammoth #meriweatherlewis #williamclark #sacagawea #discovery #manifestdestiny #americanhistory #ushistory #historymystery #historicalmystery #historicalmurder #murderhistory #benjaminrush #18thcentury #19thcentury #18thcenturystyle #19thcenturystyle #yellowfever #epidemic #plaguehistory #bloodletting #medicalhistory #historyofmedicine #strangehistory #weirdhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CSwxlbfHYZn/?utm_medium=tumblr

[josephwarring]

another tagging game (sorry)

if i were a… month: november

day: monday because nobody likes either of us

planet: jupiter god or goddess: demeter, goddes of the harvest sea animal: jellyfish piece of furniture: it’s not furniture but one of theose succulent things gemstone: b> my birthstone is aquamarine so that i guess flower: a daffodill weather: the kind of snow that school gets cancelled for

color: burgundy emotion: gratification

fruit: blackberry

element: wind? idk

place: a coffee shop/ book shop in the mountains : gelato

scent: fog after rain, or the smell of new clothes body part: what

tagged by @historival and I tag: @tallmage @benjaminrush @histxric @washlngton @alexaderhamilton and anyone else who wants to, I think most of my mutuals have done it