Edmund lived in mid-sixteenth-century England and had symptoms of what would now be diagnosed as schizophrenic. He could not car

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Edmund lived in mid-sixteenth-century England and had symptoms of what would now be diagnosed as schizophrenic. He could not car

e for himself, and his family abandoned him. What MOST likely happened to him given his location and time in history

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Sunny_sXe [5.5K] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-13T01:01:05+03:00

Answer:

He would probably be taken to asylum where he would endure torture.

Explanation:

England in the mid 16th century saw mental illness as a matter of medical reasoning as well as caused by demonic (supernatural event). People diagnosed as schizophrenic sent to an asylum where they could be either be treated or tortured. The famous asylum in England during the 16th century was Bethlem in London. Bethlem began to care for those who were not from a poor background.