item: #1 of 11
          id: 11556
      author: Verne, Jules
       title: Facing the Flag
        date: None
       words: 57265
      flesch: 76
     summary: 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.
    keywords: able; air; american; anchor; answer; approach; archipelago; atlantic; attack; attempt; attendant; attention; aware; band; bank; beehive; bermuda; berne; best; better; black; board; boat; breeze; cabin; calm; captain; captain spade; case; cavern; cell; certain; chance; chapter; clear; close; coast; companions; compartment; condition; count; count d'artigas; country; couple; course; crew; cruiser; cup; d'artigas; danger; davon; day; days; deck; deflagrator; direction; director; distance; doctor; door; doubt; east; easy; ebba; effect; electric; end; engineer; engineer serko; engines; english; entrance; escape; establishment; existence; expedition; explosive; extremity; eyes; fact; fear; feet; flag; foot; force; forward; free; french; fulgurator; gaydon; good; great; half; hand; hart; head; healthful; healthful house; high; hold; hole; hope; hours; house; idea; inside; interest; interior; invention; inventor; iron; island; issue; karraje; keeper; keg; ker; ker karraje; kind; known; laboratory; lagoon; lake; lay; leave; left; length; liberty; lieutenant; life; likely; little; long; longer; look; lost; man; manner; matter; means; men; mental; miles; millions; mind; minutes; moment; months; morning; mountain; movement; narrow; nature; near; necessary; neuse; new; night; north; notice; o'clock; object; ocean; open; opinion; orders; orifice; origin; outside; pamlico; park; passage; passes; past; patient; pavilion; person; pirates; place; point; port; position; possession; possible; power; powerful; presence; present; question; reach; reason; reply; retreat; return; rocks; room; said; sailors; sails; schooner; sea; secret; serko; set; ship; sign; simon; sir; small; smoke; soul; sound; south; spade; speed; states; submarine; surface; suspicion; sword; thing; thomas roch; thought; tide; time; true; tug; tunnel; united; usual; vessel; view; visit; voyage; walk; wall; warder; warships; watch; water; way; west; wind; wonder; work; world; yacht; yards; years; zone
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 11962
      author: Beers, Clifford Whittingham
       title: A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography
        date: None
       words: 65447
      flesch: 70
     summary: 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.
    keywords: able; abnormal; abuse; account; action; activity; afternoon; age; answer; appear; appearance; arrival; artistic; assault; assaulted; assistant; attack; attempt; attendant; attention; attitude; august; authority; bed; belief; best; blank; blood; body; book; brain; brother; building; bull; business; care; case; cell; certain; chance; charge; circumstances; city; clothes; cold; college; coming; commitment; common; condition; conduct; confession; confidence; confinement; connecticut; conservator; consideration; continued; control; conversation; convinced; country; course; court; day; days; death; decided; degree; delusions; desire; detectives; difficult; dinner; disgrace; doctor; dollars; door; doubt; drawing; duty; earlier; early; ease; easy; effect; elation; entire; escape; events; excitement; exercise; experience; eye; fact; fair; false; family; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; field; floor; following; food; foot; force; fortunate; free; freedom; friendly; friends; gain; general; glass; god; good; governor; great; ground; half; hand; happy; haven; head; health; heart; heavy; hell; helpless; high; hold; home; hope; hospital; hours; house; human; hyde; idea; illness; imagination; impression; impulse; inclined; informed; insane; institution; intended; intense; interest; jacket; jekyll; judgment; july; june; kind; kindly; known; lack; large; later; lead; leave; left; leisure; letter; liberty; life; like; line; literary; literature; little; living; long; look; man; manner; march; matter; meal; means; medicine; memory; mental; mere; methods; mind; minutes; moment; money; months; mood; morning; muff; natural; nature; necessary; need; new; newspapers; night; normal; november; number; occasion; october; office; old; open; order; owner; paper; past; patients; peculiar; pen; pencil; people; period; person; physical; physician; piece; place; plans; pleasure; point; position; possible; power; presence; present; prior; prison; private; project; public; purpose; question; reach; read; reading; real; reason; record; reform; refusal; relatives; remark; reply; request; restraint; result; return; rights; room; sanatorium; sanity; satisfaction; scheme; school; second; secret; secure; self; sense; set; ship; short; situated; situation; sleep; small; society; special; speech; stand; state; stop; story; strait; strange; subject; suffering; suggestion; suicide; summer; superintendent; support; sure; surprising; suspicion; taking; talk; test; things; thought; thousands; throat; thy; time; tongue; torture; touch; transfer; treatment; trial; trouble; troublesome; true; truth; tube; type; unable; unusual; use; usual; view; violent; visit; walk; walls; ward; watch; way; weeks; willing; window; wish; women; words; work; world; worse; writing; yale; years; york; young
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 18398
      author: Pengilly, Mary Huestis
       title: Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum
        date: None
       words: 9580
      flesch: 84
     summary: 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?
    keywords: asylum; better; boys; care; child; church; cold; commissioners; day; dear; doctor; fear; fire; food; friends; girl; good; hair; hand; happy; heart; help; home; house; john; ladies; lewis; life; little; long; look; lunatic; men; milk; mills; mother; mrs; near; nice; old; poor; province; room; school; sons; steeves; thought; time; today; trouble; ward; warm; wish; woman; words; working; years
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        item: #4 of 11
          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
        date: None
       words: 12638
      flesch: 47
     summary: 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
    keywords: academic; actual; adler; american; asylum; authority; building; business; case; certain; chancellor; circumstances; citizen; city; conduct; connection; consequence; consideration; council; course; day; dead; dear; disorder; door; duty; entire; europe; existence; exposition; external; fact; father; ferris; following; freedom; friends; general; german; hands; health; history; honor; hours; insanity; institution; instruction; insults; intellectual; justice; known; language; law; letter; liberty; life; literary; literature; lunatic; man; manner; matter; member; men; mind; miserable; months; moral; morality; necessary; new; night; occasion; officer; page; past; personal; philosophy; place; present; private; proceedings; professor; proper; public; purpose; question; rational; regard; regular; religion; religious; reply; rights; room; scandalous; scenes; scholar; science; self; sir; social; students; studies; study; time; university; usual; voice; way; winter; words; work; year; york
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        item: #5 of 11
          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
        date: None
       words: 68707
      flesch: 69
     summary: 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.
    keywords: abuse; account; act; actions; age; answer; application; asylum; authority; belief; best; bible; bigotry; book; boston; brother; business; care; case; certificate; chance; character; charge; chicago; children; christ; christian; church; circumstances; city; claim; class; clothing; common; community; condition; conduct; confidence; conscience; conspiracy; contrary; conversation; copy; corpus; counsel; county; course; court; cross; cruel; daily; daughter; day; days; deacon; dear; defence; desire; developed; divorce; doctor; dole; dollars; drama; duty; elizabeth; evidence; excited; existence; experience; facts; fair; false; family; father; fear; feelings; fisher; following; free; friends; general; gentlemen; god; good; government; grant; great; ground; habeas; hands; head; hearing; heart; help; holy; home; honest; honor; hope; hospital; house; human; humanity; husband; ideas; illinois; imprisonment; individual; influence; insane; insane asylum; insane person; insanity; institution; interests; interview; issue; jacksonville; judge; judgment; jury; justice; kankakee; kind; know; lady; language; large; law; laws; leave; legal; legislature; letter; liberty; life; like; little; long; love; manliness; manly; manner; manteno; marriage; married; massachusetts; matter; mcfarland; means; mental; mind; minister; money; monomaniac; months; moral; morning; mother; mrs; natural; nature; need; new; old; open; opinion; order; outside; packard; page; paper; past; patients; people; persecution; person; personal; petition; physician; place; point; poor; position; possible; power; practical; presbyterian; present; principle; proof; property; protection; public; purpose; question; real; reason; regard; relatives; religion; religious; reply; report; request; respect; result; return; rev; right; room; sabbath; sad; said; sake; school; secure; self; sense; sentiment; sheriff; short; simple; single; sister; soul; spirit; spiritual; stand; state; statement; statute; strong; subject; sunderland; superintendent; support; sure; sympathy; table; testimony; theophilus; theophilus packard; things; thought; time; treatment; trial; true; trustees; truth; undersigned; union; unjust; verdict; views; visit; w. packard; want; ward; way; weeks; wife; willing; witness; woman; words; work; world; writ; writing; wrong; years
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 38282
      author: Anonymous
       title: 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
        date: None
       words: 9380
      flesch: 76
     summary: 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.
    keywords: account; affair; almshouse; boy; brother; cage; care; case; charge; city; condition; day; doctor; fact; family; filthy; following; fourth; gibson; good; great; hands; head; herriges; herriges house; home; house; hurtt; insane; insanity; john; joseph; june; lady; left; lieutenant; life; like; little; lombard; long; man; matter; moment; month; morning; mother; mrs; night; officers; old; oregon; place; poor; prisoner; property; public; rent; reporter; room; school; sister; statement; station; street; thomas; time; victim; visit; way; window; woman; wooden; years
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 44320
      author: Arlidge, J. T. (John Thomas)
       title: On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane With Observations on the Construction and Organization of Asylums
        date: None
       words: 102701
      flesch: 38
     summary: 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.)
    keywords: 1st; absence; accommodation; account; accumulation; act; acts; actual; acute; additional; administration; admission; advanced; advantages; affairs; alleged; annual; apartments; appointment; arrangements; assistant; asylum; asylum accommodation; asylum care; asylum construction; asylum treatment; attempt; attendants; attention; authorities; authority; average; bed; beds; behalf; benefit; best; better; board; bodily; body; bucknill; building; calculated; cap; care; cases; cause; central; certain; certificate; chap; character; charge; chargeable; chief; chronic; chronic cases; chronic insane; chronic lunatics; circumstances; class; classes; classification; clothing; commissioners; committee; common; community; competent; complete; concerned; conclusion; condition; confinement; connexion; consequence; considerable; consideration; constant; constitute; construction; contrary; control; correct; corridor; cost; cottage; county; county asylum; course; curability; curative; cure; daily; dangerous; date; day; days; defects; degree; desirable; desire; details; detention; diet; dietary; different; difficulty; direct; direction; discharge; discipline; disease; disorder; distinct; district; district medical; division; door; doubt; duties; duty; early; economical; economy; effect; effectual; employment; england; english; epileptics; equal; erection; establishment; estimate; evidence; evils; examination; example; excellent; excitement; exercise; existence; existing; expenditure; expense; expensive; experience; extent; fact; family; favour; floor; following; food; force; form; frequent; friends; future; general; good; government; great; greater; ground; guardians; habits; half; hand; harmless; head; health; higher; history; homes; hope; hospital; idiots; imbecile; immediate; important; increase; incurable; independent; individual; influence; inmates; inquiry; insane; insane inmates; insane patients; insane persons; insane poor; insanity; inspection; instance; institution; interests; january; jurisdiction; justices; knowledge; known; labour; large; large asylums; law; laws; legal; liberty; licensed; life; like; likely; little; living; long; longer; lord; lordship; lunacy; lunacy board; lunacy commissioners; lunatic asylums; lunatic inmates; lunatics; magistrates; maintenance; majority; making; malady; management; manner; matter; means; medical; medical man; medical officer; medical supervision; medical treatment; members; mental; mind; mixed; months; moral; nature; necessary; necessity; need; neglect; nervous; new; night; notice; notions; number; numerous; nursing; object; objectionable; objections; observation; occupation; officer; official; old; open; operation; opinion; order; ordinary; organization; organized; pages; parish; parishes; parochial; particular; past; patients; pauper; pauper insane; pauper lunatics; people; period; personal; persons; physician; place; plan; plea; point; poor; population; position; possible; power; practice; presence; present; previous; primary; principal; principle; prisons; private; proceeding; professional; proper; property; proportion; protection; provision; public; public asylums; purpose; qualified; question; rate; reason; receive; receiving; recent; recent cases; receptacles; reception; recovery; reference; regard; registration; relatives; relief; remarks; removal; removed; report; reported; requirements; residence; respect; responsible; result; returns; rooms; routine; rule; sanction; satisfactory; scheme; seclusion; second; sect; section; self; separate; separation; set; shaftesbury; similar; single; size; sleeping; small; smaller; social; sort; space; special; staff; state; statistics; strangers; subject; suffering; sufficient; suitable; sum; superintendent; supervision; supply; system; things; thought; time; total; transfer; transmission; treatment; trouble; truth; unfit; union; union medical; unsound; value; vict; views; visit; visitation; visitors; viz; wants; wards; way; week; welfare; workhouses; year
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 48455
      author: Swan, Moses
       title: Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States
        date: None
       words: 26331
      flesch: 78
     summary: 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.
    keywords: age; alfred; anderson; asylum; attendant; bacon; bed; better; bible; board; body; boy; brattleborough; brother; cause; cell; chair; chapter; child; children; christ; church; cold; county; cruel; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; devil; different; doctor; door; duty; early; engraving; faith; falls; family; far; father; feet; female; floor; foot; friends; garden; god; going; good; great; hall; haly; hand; happy; harness; harrison; head; heart; hill; home; hoosick; house; ida; incurable; incurable house; institution; isabel; isabella; john; judge; july; kind; left; life; like; little; lomax; long; lord; lunatic; lunatic asylum; main; man; march; marshall; men; mind; mistaken; moment; months; morning; moses; mother; mrs; new; night; office; old; parents; patients; paul; person; pittstown; place; poor; prayer; prison; public; reader; room; said; saviour; saying; scott; self; set; south; spirit; stairs; state; story; strap; strong; subject; swan; sweet; things; thought; time; treatment; troy; truth; unfortunate; visit; water; way; weak; week; west; wife; william; window; word; work; years; young
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 49621
      author: Opie, Amelia
       title: The Father and Daughter: A Tale, in Prose
        date: None
       words: 34253
      flesch: 58
     summary: 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.
    keywords: account; affection; affectionate; agitation; agnes; agnes fitzhenry; alive; anguish; anxious; arms; askew; attention; best; bosom; boy; care; caroline; certain; cheek; child; children; clifford; coach; company; conduct; consciousness; convinced; cottager; countenance; danger; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; degree; delight; doctor; door; duty; eager; edward; emotion; excited; eyes; face; family; fanny; father; fear; feelings; fitzhenry; following; frantic; friend; future; garden; girl; god; good; governors; gratitude; great; guilt; half; hand; happiness; happy; having; head; hearing; heart; heaven; help; home; hope; hour; house; humble; idea; ill; joy; justice; kind; kindness; knees; lady; leave; left; length; letter; life; like; little; london; long; look; lord; lordship; love; madam; making; man; manner; marriage; married; master; means; mind; misery; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mountcarrol; mrs; native; new; night; noise; object; opportunity; order; past; pity; place; pleasure; poor; possible; power; present; pride; question; ready; reason; recollection; regret; resolution; respect; return; road; room; round; satisfaction; self; sense; servant; seymour; situation; sleep; smile; soul; story; strength; subject; surprise; tears; thing; thought; time; town; trembling; truth; unhappy; vain; victim; voice; walk; way; welcome; wife; wilson; wishes; woman; wonder; words; world; young
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 5230
      author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
       title: The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
        date: None
       words: 49921
      flesch: 87
     summary: 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.
    keywords: adye; afternoon; air; angry; answer; arm; arms; aware; bandaged; bar; bare; barman; beard; bed; bedroom; beginning; better; big; bit; black; blind; blood; blow; blue; bolts; books; bottles; box; broken; bunting; burdock; business; cabman; candle; cat; certain; chair; chapter; children; clear; clock; close; clothes; coach; coat; cold; collar; corner; country; couple; course; cricketers; crowd; curious; cuss; cut; dark; day; days; devil; dining; doctor; dog; door; doubt; downstairs; dozen; dressing; drink; end; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faint; far; fearenside; feeling; feet; felt; figure; fingers; fire; floor; food; fool; foot; forthwith; furniture; game; gas; girl; glass; glasses; god; good; gown; great; green; griffin; guest; half; hall; hand; hard; hat; head; headlong; heaven; heavy; heelas; help; henfrey; hill; hold; home; horses; hour; house; huge; human; huxter; idea; inn; invisibility; invisible; invisible man; iping; jaffers; jolly; kemp; kitchen; landing; landlord; left; legs; light; like; lips; little; locked; long; looking; lord; luggage; mad; man; manner; mariner; marvel; matter; middle; millie; mind; minute; moment; money; morning; mouth; movement; mrs; muffled; neck; nerves; nose; o'clock; odd; old; open; opening; ordinary; outside; paper; parlour; passage; past; people; person; place; plans; pocket; point; poker; policeman; port; position; possible; quiet; rage; reason; red; rest; revolver; road; room; round; running; rush; save; scared; second; set; sheet; shop; shot; shoulder; shouting; shut; shutters; silence; silent; silly; sir; sitting; sleep; sleeve; smashed; snow; sort; space; spectacles; square; staircase; stand; staring; state; station; steps; stop; story; stowe; straight; stranger; straw; street; struggle; study; stuff; sudden; surprised; table; teddy; tell; terror; things; thomas; thought; thud; time; town; tramp; transparent; turn; turning; unseen; upstairs; vicar; view; village; visitor; voice; wadgers; walking; want; water; way; weather; white; wicksteed; wide; window; woman; wonderful; work; world; yard; years; young
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 55104
      author: Murphy, P. L. (Patrick Livingston)
       title: Colony Treatment of the Insane and Other Defectives
        date: None
       words: 2842
      flesch: 66
     summary: [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.
    keywords: building; care; carolina; colony; defectives; family; general; great; home; hospitals; illustration; insane; insanity; life; man; means; men; morganton; north; number; patients; people; poultry; state; sufficient; time; treatment; white; work; years
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