article_snippet: Others suffered from epilepsy, learning disabilities and dementia.
article_snippet: Although it is sometimes thought to have treated it patients cruelly, most were free to walk around the grounds.
article_snippet: Inside the single-storey building that housed 12 cells, a kitchen, staff accommodation and an exercise yard, inmates were manacled and chained – and treated as a tourist attraction by Londoners who paid a penny to stare at inmates.
article_snippet: Patients, usually poor, were given treatments including restraint, dousing with water, beatings and isolation.