During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, European mental hospitals humiliated mentally ill patients by:
A)exhibiting their conditions to the public for a fee.
B)parading them down the streets in chains.
C)having them sentenced to prison terms.
D)creating deplorable conditions to keep them submissive.

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During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, it was common for European mental hospitals to exhibit mentally ill patients to the public for a fee, as a form of entertainment or curiosity. This practice reflects the historical mistreatment and misunderstanding of mental illness.

During the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries, European Mental Hospitals