An admissions registry was recently discoveredAberdeen Lunatic Asylumor a mental health institution, in which we talk about a woman admitted because of her problems with a sedentary lifestyle and… tea.
After finding out how the mortuary was born, this time we talk about the NHS Grampian Archives which is a group that collects and preserves the historical archives of over 100 hospitals and healthcare organizations of the region around the Grampian Mountains of Scotland. Recently, he made a bizarre and worrying discovery.
The document in question contains i data on causes of hospitalization classified by sex. In addition to those admitted to the facility for “poverty” or “disappointment in love” (yes, a man and a woman were admitted for this reason), we find a woman seeking medical help for what seemed like delusions. The particularity? She had her problems blamed on her.”sedentary lifestyle and abuse of tea“.
We are talking specifically about Elizabeth Collie, a 34-year-old factory worker, who was admitted to the mental health facility in November 1848 after suffering from delusions.
His medical records report that Collie imagined “that some types of machinery had been used by his neighbors in the house where he lived, in order cause pain and discomfort in your headintestines and other parts of the body“.
Hospital employees noted that “it is not possible to attribute any cause to his condition, except perhaps the excessive use of teaon which she has always been very dependent“. Collie later left the hospital more than six months later, in June 1849. Are you shocked? That’s not all.
Apparently, based on a letter addressed to the editors of the British Medical Journal in 1886, we find testimony that the suspicion about women’s habit of drinking tea it was not exclusive to mental health institutions in the Aberdeen area, but far more widespread.
An accomplished physician, J. Muir Howie, who was once regional president of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, wrote: “Would you kindly allow me to draw attention to the fact that, at least among women, tea abuse often leads to alcohol abuse! My experience in connection with a home for drunken women led me to this conclusion. Many of the inmates, indeed almost all, were heavy tea drinkers before becoming victims of alcoholic dipsomania. In many cases, alcohol was initially used to relieve the nervous symptoms produced by excessive consumption of tea“.
True, recent studies have shown that milk tea is probably addictive, however, there are still many mysteries surrounding the events of Elizabeth Collie.
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