University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Medical Museum
Diagnostik
Photographs of the Slide Show
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8.From slide show courtesy of Marguerite Perret and Bruce Scherting. Photograph courtesy of Medical Museum.
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Meditation in Hydrotherapy
Six hours a day I lay me down
Within this tub but cannot drown.
The ice cap at my rigid neck
Has served to keep me with the quick.
Within this primal element
The flesh is willing to repent.
I do not laugh; I do not cry;
I am sweating out the will to die.
My past is sliding down the drain;
I soon will be myself again.
Thoedore Roethke
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975
An Excerpt from "On Lithium"
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9.From slide show courtesy of Marguerite Perret and Bruce Scherting. Photograph courtesy of Medical Museum.
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10.Courtesy of Marguerite Perret and Bruce Scherting.
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Come to terms, had you, for life? Well, whose?
Not in my shoes, a psychiatrist
in a D.C. hospital ward said
I should regard my mental illness
as I would a broken leg. You have
made your bed, and lie in it you must.
(My words.) Her trope was remedial
temporarily. No more depressed
and never a maniac, I can't
deem the whole nature of my temper
and my sanity dependent on
450 mgs of matter
taken at bedtime.
Rika Lesser
All We Need Of Hell, 1995
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