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id: 55104
author: Murphy, P. L. (Patrick Livingston)
title: Colony Treatment of the Insane and Other Defectives
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  [Illustration: SNAP SHOT--COLONY PATIENTS CULTIVATING STRAWBERRIES] It may occur to some to ask why these men had not been sent out to work before and given an opportunity. In general hospitals, in institutions for children, and in reformatories we have a different class to deal with.


id: 18398
author: Pengilly, Mary Huestis
title: Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum
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  My prayers for them have always been, that they might be a benefit to their fellows; that they grow to be good men; to be able to fill their places in the world as useful members of society, not living entirely for themselves, but for the good of others, an honor to themselves and a blessing to the world. How unkind Mrs. Mills is today; does she think this sort of treatment is for the good of our health?


id: 38282
author: Anonymous
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  The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House

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  As evidence of the fact, Mr. Herriges brought forth an old time receipt-book and showed us the following receipt: Received January 12, 1838, of Mr. Joseph Herriges, five dollars in full for one quarter's tuition of brother John B. Herriges, at evening school, including light and stationary. $5. R. O. R. LOUETT. Since going to press with this history an account of the affair has appeared in _THE DAY_, and which we have inserted here with the desire to place before the public whatever may be favorable to Mr. Herriges in the matter of his brother's confinement.


id: 33241
author: Adler, G. J. (George J.)
title: Letters of a Lunatic A Brief Exposition of My University Life, During the Years 1853-54
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  result, of an internal physical or intellectual disorder or defect, which is moreover susceptible of classification and of a psychological exposition, while in the former it was got up for the particular purpose of subjugation or of expulsion, and where consequently it was the result of _responsible_ perversity and malice, _susceptible of moral reprobation_. This act of rational self-recovery, whereby I constitute myself an existing idea, a person of legal and moral responsibility, _subverts the previous relation and puts an end to the injustice which I myself and the other party have done to my comprehension and to my reason, by treating and suffering to be treated the endless existence of self-consciousness as an external and an alienable object_.[2] [2] I emphasize this important clause for the particular benefit of those who in my personal history have had the absurd expectation that I should continue to entertain a respectful deference to a certain phase of religionism, which upon a careful and rational examination I found to be worthless and which is repugnant to my taste and better judgment, and of others who with equal absurdity are in the habit of exacting ecclesiastical tests (I will not say religious, for such men show by their very conduct that their enlightenment in matters of the religion of the heart is very imperfect) for academic


id: 48455
author: Swan, Moses
title: Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States
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  oh how brightly it shone, for it was a dark night and had been for many days to my soul, all my troubles subsided Said I, I have no home, and followed him to the coach, when he immediately started off down street, made a halt at Judge Robertson's office.


id: 49621
author: Opie, Amelia
title: The Father and Daughter: A Tale, in Prose
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  Mr. Seymour clasped her to his bosom as she said this, and involuntarily exclaimed, Oh! poor Fitzhenry!--And poor Agnes too!--retorted Caroline, throwing her arms round his neck: it will be my parting request, when I leave my paternal roof, that you will do all the justice you can to my once-honoured friend--and let the world say what it pleases. On this little circumstance poor Agnes lay ruminating the whole night after, with joyful expectation; and she repaired to the garden at day-break, with a gardener whom she hired, to make the walks look as much as possible as they formerly did.


id: 5230
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
title: The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
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  While these things were going on in the parlour, and while Mr. Huxter was watching Mr. Marvel smoking his pipe against the gate, not a dozen yards away were Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey discussing in a state of cloudy puzzlement the one Iping topic. Said he'd consider it.


id: 11556
author: Verne, Jules
title: Facing the Flag
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  I indite the following message: On June 15 last Thomas Roch and his keeper Gaydon, or rather Simon Hart, the French engineer who occupied Pavilion No. 17, at Healthful House, near New-Berne, North Carolina, United States of America, were kidnapped and carried on board the schooner _ At last Thomas Roch embarks in the boat used for crossing the lake and is rowed over to his laboratory.


id: 11962
author: Beers, Clifford Whittingham
title: A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography
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  Occasionally, however, a professor, in justice to himself and to the other students, would insist that I recite, and at such times I managed to make enough of a recitation to hold my place in the class. I entered the Tax Office with the intention of staying only until such time as I might secure a position in New York.


id: 36591
author: Packard, E. P. W. (Elizabeth Parsons Ware)
title: Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity
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  In the winter of 1859 and 1860, there were differences of opinion between Mr. Packard and Mrs. Packard, upon matters of religion, which resulted in prolonged and vigorous debate in the home circle. Mrs. Dole, the sister of Mr. Packard, came in, leading the little daughter of Mrs. Packard, and in passing by the table occupied by Mrs. Packard and her counsel, the child stopped, went up to her mother, kissed and hugged her, and was clinging to her with all child-like fervor, when it was observed by Mrs. Dole, who snatched the child up--and bid it come away from that woman; adding, She is not fit to take care of you--I have you in my charge; and thereupon led her away.


id: 44320
author: Arlidge, J. T. (John Thomas)
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title:
  On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane With Observations on the Construction and Organization of Asylums

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  This technicality of considering workhouse inmates as the only recipients of _in-door_ relief, to the exclusion of asylum patients who are in reality receiving it in an equal degree, although in another building than the workhouse, is an official peculiarity we can neither explain nor approve; and it appears to us most desirable that lunatic paupers in asylums should be arranged in a distinct column, and that the same should be done with those living with their friends or others. of the same Act, it is competent to any three Visitors of an asylum, or to any two in conjunction with the Medical Officer of the asylum, to discharge on trial for a specified time any person detained in such asylum, whether such person be recovered or not; and by the following section (lxxx.)


