e from rural areas would refuse to send ill-family members believing they were shameful and should remain hidden from public view. Though, it was found that if the insane person was peaceful, the community would generally allow them to run loose. Once they became enraged, they were chained or placed in a hole (Shorter 4). Without proper care, there was no hope for a cure. With an increase in battered lunatics, hospital wards frequently were flooded with mental patients. As the number of insane increased, a general understanding of the mind was developed bringing with it the grounds of psychiatry. Rapidly, traditional asylums began emerging in populated areas.
             The traditional asylum embodied the same custodial beliefs of the household methods, focusing more on removing lunatics from the public rather than curing them. Traditional society had no notion of giv
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