Pathological Laughing and Crying [Silent] (St. Elizabeths Hospital, 1930)

Produced at the Photo Lab at St. Elizabeths Hospital, this film depicts patients exhibiting pathological laughing and crying behaviors while in residence at St. Elizabeths Hospital, an institution for people with mental illness managed at the time by the US government.

Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101773056

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