Donna Brown
Appearances
Under Yazoo Clay
Ever True to Thee
This right here is very interesting. It's a register for the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum.
Under Yazoo Clay
Ever True to Thee
The lady in the shower, they had to pencil in panties and bra on her because that was pornography for 1938.
Under Yazoo Clay
Ever True to Thee
Today, you can go to the spa. They'll wrap you in mud, sand, aloe gel, seaweed, coffee grounds, tea leaves, salt, sugar. The most expensive one I've found is Pink Indian Sand in New Orleans, $1,200, 45 minutes.
Under Yazoo Clay
Ever True to Thee
Hydrotherapy tubs, now this is by far the treatment of choice. Just a long soak in a big old bath.
Under Yazoo Clay
Ever True to Thee
This is a needle spray shower or a scotch shower. Each one of these nozzles control the jet of the water, cold here, hot here, back and forth. The doctor would literally write a prescription. The patient would come in, go to the center, hold on to the bars. She would start spraying the formula. See the petals? They're not here today, but that controlled the intensity of the water.
Under Yazoo Clay
Ever True to Thee
This is a wet pack treatment. When he came, he was very manic, very fidgety. They wanted to calm him down. So they wrapped him in sheets as tight as they could, much like a swaddled baby. Got him on the table, hot and cold water faucets. They'd soak him down. Before we exit the hydrotherapy unit, Donna reads us a poem. Meditation and Hydrotherapy, Theodore Rothke.
Under Yazoo Clay
Ever True to Thee
Six hours a day, I lay me down within this tub but cannot drown. Within this primal element, the flesh is willing to repent. I do not laugh. I do not cry. I'm sweating out the will to die. My past is sliding down the drain. I soon will be myself again.
Under Yazoo Clay
Threads
There are a lot of stories, too. If you look closely at the picture, you can see there's a road that turns here and circles up close to the building. Sunday afternoons in Jackson, it was a common, fun thing to do to go picnic on the grounds and watch the, quote, crazy people.