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[PSYCHIATRY]. Government Hospital for the Insane certificate of completion. 20 June 1916. Original document certifying that Jessie E. Marston has completed required training for nurses at St. Elizabeths Hospital located in Washington, D.C. Framed, 470 x 394 mm. SIGNED BY U.S. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN KNIGHT LANE. St. Elizabeth’s Hospital opened in 1855 as the Government Hospital for the Insane. Throughout its existence as a psychiatric hospital it has housed Charles Guiteau, John Hinckley, Jr., Ezra Pound, and Mary Fuller, among others. The hospital became infamous for its pioneering use of electroshock therapy during the 1950s.