Handle with Care - Science and Technology Museum

When Serqualouk started laying out the lines of foundations that year he put a bend in them. It wasn't much, but still – a bend.

It was a dilemma, medical students needed cadavers for dissection. But procuring cadavers was illegal. In nineteenth-century Montreal there was only one solution. And it was ghoulish. 

A Canadian professor’s research into sensory deprivation and its connection to disturbing new methods of interrogation.

Medical director Joseph Workman believed that 50 per cent of his alleged “lunacy” cases were curable at home. But with this half-built facility so close at hand, local officials found it a convenient place to drop off their criminals, misfits and troublemakers.