When Drinking Too Much Tea Could Get a Woman Sent to a Psychiatric Hospital
If you were a woman in the 19th century, virtually anything could get you committed to a psychiatric hospital—including drinking too much tea.
If you were a woman in the 19th century, virtually anything could get you committed to a psychiatric hospital—including drinking too much tea.
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