Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Insane, Submitted to the Legislature of Alabama, November 15, 1849 (Classic Reprint)
Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Insane, Submitted to the Legislature of Alabama, November 15, 1849 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Dorothea Lynde Dix

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9781396364884

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Excerpt from Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Insane, Submitted to the Legislature of Alabama, November 15, 1849 Iaithe hospital at Augusta, Maine, the average time of recent cases re covered was 157 days that of old cases recovered was 229 days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Insane, Submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania. February 3 1845
Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Insane, Submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania. February 3 1845

Author: Dorothea Lynde Dix

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781230459301

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... constructed, and out of repair. This, comparatively, is of little consequence. It was dirty, ill-kept and neglected. A wall, nearly twenty-five feet high, plastered within, surrounded the exercise yard. There were no criminal prisoners: the only occupants of the jail apartments, when I was there in August, were two madmen, in chains; if the rats, of which I heard some intimation, are not included in the category. The men were chained and in separate rooms, or one in a passage, and the other in a room, apart for their mutual safety. I did not see their food, and know nothing of its quantity or quality. I saw no bedstead, nor any furniture. The man in the outer room, or passage, was somewhat cleaner than the other, but I must be excused from entering upon special details; the other was covered with soot, and coal-dust and dirt, and was extended upon the floor, clanking his chains, and beating his head, shouting and singing. Here fell no ray of comfort, hope, or consolation. One of these men is decidedly homicidal, and, with the exception of a short interval, has been, I was informed, in prison fifteen years. On one occasion, becoming violently excited at seeing an intoxicated man put into his room, and possibly provoked by him, for no one knows how it was, he fell upon and murdered him in the most shocking manner. When the keeper came to visit his prisoners, a horrible spectacle presented itself--the murdered drunkard, mangled and lifeless: the madman exulting in the deed and covered with the blood of his victim! He also when at large burned a building. The other man has been insane about seven years. Both are dangerous, and are subject to paroxysms of fury. Every person must comprehend something of the difficulties of taking care of the...

Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane
Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane

Author: Dorothea Lynde Dix

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-21

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780282938925

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Excerpt from Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane: Submitted to the General Assembly of North Carolina; November, 1848 Since I was in Rowan, an insane man, possessed of a moderate fortune has been committed to the jail I will not attempt to depict his sufferings in the dismal dungeon into which he has been cast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane, Submitted to the General Assembly of North Carolina, November, 1848 (D
Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane, Submitted to the General Assembly of North Carolina, November, 1848 (D

Author: Dorothea Lynde Dix

Publisher:

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781409988144

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Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. In 1840-41, she conducted a statewide investigation of how her home state of Massachusetts cared for the insane poor. She later traveled from New Hampshire to Louisiana, documenting the condition of pauper lunatics, publishing memorials to state legislatures, and devoting enormous personal energy to working with committees to draft the enabling legislation and appropriations bills needed to build asylums. During the Civil War, she served as Superintendent of Army Nurses.

Memorial Soliciting a State for the Insane, Submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, Febr. 3, 1845: Printed by Order of the Legislature of Penn'
Memorial Soliciting a State for the Insane, Submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, Febr. 3, 1845: Printed by Order of the Legislature of Penn'

Author: Dorothea L. Dix

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781376259346

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Acts of the Legislature, and By-Laws, for the Erection, Organization and Government of the Alabama Insane Hospital, at Tuscaloosa (Classic Reprint)
Acts of the Legislature, and By-Laws, for the Erection, Organization and Government of the Alabama Insane Hospital, at Tuscaloosa (Classic Reprint)

Author: Alabama Insane Hospital

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780243309009

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Excerpt from Acts of the Legislature, and by-Laws, for the Erection, Organization and Government of the Alabama Insane Hospital, at Tuscaloosa Resident 10. The resident Trustees may supply, temporarily, the place of Superintendent and-treasurer, in case of death or resignation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.