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Bowssening was a former treatment for 'madness' employed in Cornwall during the Middle Ages. The supposedly mad person was thrown or pushed into a lake or pond, and repeatedly dragged under the water until half-drowned and incapacitated by some strong men, before then being taken to a local church and masses sung over the patient. Bowssening met wi...Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/EB.HTM