GlasWolf on 19/9/2006 at 20:14
From the register:
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White Hall Patient Register
Patient No. 1 - Cell 1 (Seclusion Chamber)
Wears a wax mask to cover his missing features. Confined to the Seclusion Chamber. Answers to name “King No One”. Dangerous and intelligent.
Patient No. 2 - Cell 2
Allowed to carry a set of blunt utensils. Visits to the Meal Hall permitted, under escort.
Patient No. 3 - Cell 3
Keeps an unlit candle. Patient has frequent episodes of sleepwalking that inevitably lead to the Morgue.
Patient No. 4 - Cell 4
Patient is allowed supervised access to his clockworking tools (in a wooden box). He is allowed to perform repair tasks in the Shock Therapy room.
Patient No. 5 - Cell 5
Allowed to carry his telescope. He is allowed to bring it up to the old Observatory once a month.
Patient No. 6 - Cell 6
Keeps the ashes of her stillborn child in an urn. Permitted to take her "baby" for walks in the Exercise Yard.
Patient No. 7 - Cell 7
Patient is allowed to affix her wooden birdhouse to the Balcony, under supervision, twice a month.
Patient No. 8 - Cell 8
Permission has been granted for her to give dance recitals in the Lobotomy Theater with her viktrola.
Patient No. 9 - Cell 9
Permitted to keep her tinderbox, minus fuel. Allowed to light the fire in the Lounge as a reward for good behavior.
GlasWolf on 19/9/2006 at 20:20
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Case No. 1: E. Poshtoll
Patient History
Entry One: Subject arrived via City Watch escort. Perpetrator of the infamous Tallow Man murders. Deemed unfit to stand trial. Wears wax mask to cover extreme facial deformities. Admitted for observation and treatment. – Doctor Sandbridge
Entry Two: Sedatives and electrical treatments ineffective. Possesses a cunning intelligence. Extremely dangerous. Refuses to answer to own name. Other patients taken to calling him "King No-One". Natural leader. Recommend be kept in Seclusion Chamber. – DS
Entry Three: Tricked nursing staff into taking his medications. Nurse Sorrel dead. Nurse Lovewell remains in sick ward – we were unable to reach her before he disfigured her face. Where did he get the wax? – DS
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Case No. 2: M. Gunter
Patient History
Entry One: Subject brought in by City Watch for observation. Found by officers eating a meal of questionable origin. Doctor Hanscomb to take the case.
Entry Two: Experimental treatments going poorly. Cure unlikely. Subject allowed to move about the hospital with escort. Recommend he be kept well fed at all times. Favorite area is the Meal Hall – may be allowed there as a reward for good behavior. Patient must not have access to metal utensils, especially knives. Blunt utensils only! Also, remind staff to discourage other patients from using "Gourmet" nickname. - Doc Hanscomb
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Case No. 3: S. Izen
Patient History
Entry One: Delivered by City Watch under suspicion of murder. Patient has marked episodes of narcolepsy, during which sleepwalking and other behaviors occur, with no recollection of events when awakened. Admitted for observation and treatment. - Doctor Pettihue.
Entry Two: Water treatments having good effect. Unclear whether the treatment itself is sound, or if the subject is merely feigning proper behavior in order to avoid further submergings. Patient allowed to keep an unlit candle. - Doc P.
Entry Three: Patient caught sleepwalking in the Morgue. If patient is developing an affinity for the Morgue – could be useful to withhold access as punishment. – Doc P.
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Case No. 4: A. Solzer
Patient History
Entry One: Patient admitted self to Shalebridge after a nervous episode. Probably not a danger to self or others. Will observe and allow patient to rest and recuperate. Will probably be released and be able to return to his clock-working job shortly. - Doctor Ranker
Entry Two: Patient accidentally given electrical treatments with unfortunate consequences. Total psychosis. Extremely dangerous to others. Unpredictable. Sandbridge recommends further treatments to mitigate results of initial treatments. Patient may be allowed his clock-working tools to perform repairs in the Shock Therapy room only – under supervision, of course. – Doctor Ranker
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Case No. 5: J. Nuvio
Patient History
Entry One: Admitted to facility after a woman was attacked during a portrait sitting. Subject's studio filled with half finished works and suspicious buckets of red fluid and other evidence of foul play. Recommend observation and treatment. – Doctor Pettihue
Entry Two: Subject caught attacking another patient who was sitting for a portrait. Recommend increasing electrical therapy to twice a day. Patient carries a telescope – possibly for voyeuristic behavior. Patient may be allowed supervised visits to the Observatory – for now. Indulging these whims may not prove therapeutic. Doc P.
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Case No. 6: F. Topper
Patient History
Entry One: Brought in by City Watch, hysterical. Carries an urn that contains the ashes of what authorities think might be her own infant. Refers to self as "Mama" Topper. Could prove a difficult case to cure. – Doctor Sandbridge
Entry Two: Efforts to take the infant ashes away are always met with same self destructive behavior. For now we see no harm in allowing subject to carry them with her during a weekly walk in the Exercise Yard. Inform Dr. Hascomb I approve the use of his experimental heat therapy. - DS
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Case No. 7: C. Pins
Patient History
Entry One: Admitted to hospital for observation and treatment by her family. Completely unresponsive to questions or the presence of others. Due to her sensitive age, recommend she be placed under Doctor Sandbridge’s expert care. – Doctor Hanscomb
Entry Two: Told the family today that subject will never be well enough to return home. As proof, I showed them her cell, which of course is grotesquely outfitted in the same way as the murder scene. I believe on some level they were relieved. DS
Entry Three: The board has decided to allow her continued visits to the Balcony with her "bird house".
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Case No. 8: V. Elliot
Patient History
Entry One: Admitted into hospital by her late husband's family. Apparently they wanted to avoid the scandal of a murder trial, especially since subject is completely unfit for public appearances of any kind. Recommend no glass or mirrors in her cell. – Doctor Sandbridge.
Entry Two: Have decided to allow the monthly dance "recitals" subject performs for the children in the Lobotomy Theater. She uses that old Mechanist viktrola of hers. However, these recitals should be supervised. DS
Entry Three: Almost lost our "Dancer" today when she was left alone in the treatment room during one of Doctor Hanscomb’s experiments. We should be more careful, especially when the subject is from a wealthy family. DS
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Case No. 9: A. Wrenfeld
Patient History
Entry One: According to City Watch, patient was present at the scene of several fatal fires. It seems unlikely that such a slight and unintelligent creature could be capable of arson, however we agreed to observe and treat her if necessary. Subject assigned to the care of Doctor Pettihue.
Entry Two: Treatments are ongoing. Little hope for reintroducing patient into normal society. For punishment of undesirable behaviors, keep the subject in the dark for prolonged periods. To reward good behavior, may be allowed to light the fire in the Lounge. Remember to remove fuel from her tinderbox afterward! – DP
Finally, the treatment...
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Heat Therapy to Ameliorate Dampness in Hyper-Emotive Patients
By Doctor William Hanscomb
Patients whom have lost touch with reality often have a marked dampness to their extremities - a clamminess of the hand, a sweatiness of the foot. These symptoms result from an excess of emotive humors that are trapped within the individual due to bile deficiency. Although electrical regimes are often used with this type of patient, I have also had great success with the application of heat. The heat must be of the dry variety, as hot water submersion only exacerbates symptoms by increasing emotive humors. The hot elements must be laid directly on the skin to draw away the excesses of moisture.
Poison Ivy on 19/9/2006 at 21:16
Thanks, that's EXACTLY what I was looking for. :D
I'll need that info for the second part of the fanfic...
By the way, I finished and uploaded the first part! In a day or two it will appear on fanfiction.net as well. :D
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http://www.deviantart.com/view/40073044/)
