Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States
by Moses Swan
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'I have been prompted by my friends and urged by a sense of duty to write the history of the Ten Years I spent in Lunatic Asylums, and give it to the public. This I proposed to do as soon as I came out, but I dreaded to expose my family to the scorn and reproach that would be cast upon them by my telling the whole truth, and when I did conclude to give it to the public, my feeble health prevented me, for a long time, from doing any thing.I commenced during the last summer to write a full account of all the terrible acts that I experienced, saw and heard during those eventful years of sorrow an...
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- 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.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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