Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States
by Moses Swan
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About this eBook
- Author
- Swan, Moses, 1812-
- Credits
- Produced by Brian Coe, Cindy Horton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RC: Medicine: Internal medicine
- Subject
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 48455
- Release Date
- March 10, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TEN YEARS AND TEN MONTHS IN LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN DIFFERENT STATES. — TRANSACTIONS OF A SINGLE DAY. — PREFACE. — MY GOD FIRST AND THEN THE PEOPLE. — CHAPTER I.
- 2.CHAPTER II.
- 3.CHAPTER III.
- 4.CHAPTER IV. — MY CAPTURE AND RIDE TO THE ASYLUM. — Some of the Main House Patients and Attendants. — WHO GOVERNS THE INMATES? — MY WIFE'S FIRST VISIT TO THE ASYLUM. — A WORD TO HUSBANDS AND WIVES. — APPARENTLY A GARDEN OF PARADISE. — THE GARDEN CONVERTED INTO SHADY WALKS. — MY TREATMENT IN THE MAIN HOUSE. — MY BOARD AND BEDDING. — REMARKS. — MY WIFE'S LAST VISIT TO THE MAIN HOUSE. — MY REMOVAL FROM THE MAIN HOUSE TO THE INCURABLE ONE. — SUICIDE AT THE MARSHALL INFIRMARY—A FEMALE NURSE HANGS HERSELF TO THE BALUSTERS—THE CAUSE A MYSTERY.
- 5.CHAPTER V. — JUDGED INCURABLE, JULY 3, 1861—ROOMING WITH EBENEZER SCOTT. — INCURABLE HOUSE. — AFTER THE REIGN OF CHRIS. — DOCTORS, ATTENDANTS AND PATIENTS IN THE INCURABLE HOUSE. — NAMES OF ATTENDANTS AND DOCTORS IN THE INCURABLE HOUSE. — NAMES OF THE MALE PATIENTS IN THE INCURABLE HOUSE. — FEMALE PATIENTS IN THE INCURABLE HOUSE. — REIGN OF ALFRED. — SCOTT. — ALFRED'S REIGN CONTINUED THOUGH UNDER ISABEL MAGDALENE. — ALFRED'S REIGN CONTINUED. — ALFRED STILL HOLDS THE REIN OF GOVERNMENT. — REMARKS. — ALFRED THE INTEMPERATE ATTENDANT'S CRUELTY TO JOHN SMALLEY, A PATIENT. — MY WIFE VISITING ME IN THE INCURABLE HOUSE WITH BROTHER B. AND NEPHEW. — TREATMENT OF J. H. HAM BY ALFRED.
- 6.CHAPTER VI. — FRED THE ATTENDANT AFTER ALFRED. — SECOND TRANSACTION OF FRED AGAINST HIS VICTIM. — A FEW THOUGHTS SUGGESTED. — ATTENDANT AFTER FRED, NAME UNKNOWN. — TRANSACTIONS IN MY ROOM. — AFTER THE GAGGING ATTENDANT LEFT. — FALL OF 1864, VISITED BY MR. AND MRS. G. WADSWORTH AND MY WIFE. — THOMAS HALY, INCURABLE HOUSE ATTENDANT. — MY WIFE, DAUGHTER AND MRS. ALEXANDER'S VISIT. — AFTER NOALS. — SUFFERINGS OF WM. JEFFERSON, A LUNATIC. — SECOND SUFFERINGS OF WM. JEFFERSON, THE NEGRO. — KIRK HULL, OF BERLIN. — REMARKS.
- 7.CHAPTER VII. — JOHN P. BACON, OF LANSINGBURGH. — JOHN P. BACON'S TREATMENT AND SUFFERINGS BY WILLIAM ANDERSON. — ANDERSON. — LATER. ANDERSON AGAIN. HABIT A STRONG POWER. — ONE OF THE MANY SUFFERINGS OF GENERAL SCHUYLER, OF WEST TROY. — ISABEL'S TREATMENT TO MALE AND FEMALE PATIENTS. — TREATMENT OF THE PATIENT CALLED AUNTA BY ISABEL. — ISABEL'S CRUEL TREATMENT AGAINST MISS LAWN. — BRATTLEBOROUGH ASYLUM, VT. MY RIDE TO BRATTLEBOROUGH ASYLUM. — WHAT I SAW IN MY VISION DESCRIBED. — SUFFERINGS OF MECHEUM THE BOY. PROVERBS. — THE YOUNG MR. REED. — JOEL SWAIN. — JOHN EYCLESHYMER, OF PITTSTOWN. — TROY LUNATIC ASYLUM INCURABLE HOUSE.
- 8.CHAPTER VIII. — SINCE I LEFT TROY LUNATIC ASYLUM AS A PATIENT. — LAW, AND DIFFERENT MODES PRACTICED IN SENDING PATIENTS TO LUNATIC ASYLUMS. — A WORD TO THE PEOPLE. PROVERBS 22, 23.
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