The year was 1869. Her name was Mary Rote. She arrived by steamboat at Ovid landing shackled at the wrists and transported by armed guards. She had spent ten years chained to a wall, often named and suspended by her thumbs. Described as "deformed an demented", she was to become Willard Insane Asylums first patent. Drawing upon confidential hospital archives, private patient letters and newspaper accounts of the day, we are taken on a remarkable...

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