How Long to Read Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure

How Long Does it Take to Read Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 36 minutes to read Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure by Kenneth Anderson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book covers the history of for-profit institutions for the treatment of drug and alcohol habits which were established prior to the Repeal of Prohibition, as well as a number of miscellaneous entities such as mail-order opium cures. These include the famous Charles B. Towns Hospital and its notorious belladonna cure. Although many people know that Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson was treated with the belladonna cure at the Charles B. Towns Hospital, few are aware that Towns was an insurance salesman with an eighth grade education and no medical training who lied about inventing an addiction cure that he got from someone else, that Towns had also been a stockbroker who was convicted of grand larceny after embezzling money for his clients, and that Towns only decided to make a buck in the addiction cure business after being banned from stock trading. Furthermore, in the 1910s, Towns proposed that state government should force drug addicts to take his cure against their wills, and that death camps should be built to exterminate anyone who relapsed after taking his cure. This book also tells the story of Harry Hubbell Kane, who founded the De Quincey Home for the cure of drug addicts in 1881. After the De Quincey Home failed in 1883, Kane invented and marketed a notorious patent medicine named Scotch Oats Essence. Scotch Oats Essence was comprised of one third alcohol and each ounce contained about a half a grain of morphine. It seems that Kane had decided that if he couldn't make money by curing drug addicts, he could make a lot of money by creating them. These are only two of hundreds of addiction treatment facilities which existed prior to the founding of AA: some good, some bad, and some indifferent. These stories and many more can be found in this book.

How long is Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure?

Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure by Kenneth Anderson is 565 pages long, and a total of 144,075 words.

This makes it 191% the length of the average book. It also has 176% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 7 minutes to read Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure aloud.

What Reading Level is Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure?

Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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