Oddsconsin...where we explore peculiar and sometimes mysterious features of Wisconsin’s human landscape.
The First World War left many veterans suffering from severe psychological disorders, including shell-shock, also known at the time as neurasthenia, but now usually called PTSD. When the war ended in 1918, Wisconsin began to look for ways to treat these veterans. This led to the establishment of Memorial Hospital at Farwell’s Point, in Madison, on the grounds of the State Hospital for the...
