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Doggie S
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Unknown for sure. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/213671.html
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A very wise person... except for the fact they didn't patent it.
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I doubt it was some gay person!
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For anyone who is interested I might add that the straight jacket was invented in 1790 by an upholster named Guilleret at Bicêtre, an asylum for the chronically mentally ill near Paris. Known as la camisol de force it was a vest of strong cloth with long sleeves which could be attached to each other behind the back of the person one wanted to prevent from causing harm.
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