Modern approaches to an age-old problem
In 1907, ‘Declan’, a 35-year-old plumber was admitted to Richmond District Lunatic Asylum (later St Brendan’s Hospital) in Grangegorman, Dublin. Declan’s father told the admitting doctor that “we have often seen him wash his hands ten times in half a hour, dry each time, then wash water tap and pipe down to...
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