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Experiences in the Insane Hospital of Alabama.
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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. Writ Of habeas corpus--Dr. Guild--The Margin Op The Christian Herald, And Spectacle-case -- The Note Intercepted -- Davis Prosecuted -- Nearly Dead--T. Jones Saved My Life--Hunger. FEW days after I went there I concluded I would come out by writ of habeas corpus. I was placed in the extreme west end of the hospital, and through the window of my cell, eighth ward, could overlook the grounds they were preparing for the extension of the building. A white man by the name of Davis with some half dozen negroes were digging out the foundation. They had been digging there for several days. I talked with them through the grates until I got their ear and their sympathy. They promised me they would carry a note to Dr. Guild, an old friend with whom I lodged during the Annual Conference held in Tuscaloosa in 1879, if I could get it to them. So I wrote on the margin of my Chris6 "(81) s tian Herald to the doctor, and asked him to see Bros. Slaughter and Wilson and get them to see two attorneys, Powell and Wood, who had been recommended as able lawyers, and get them to come immediately and prosecute for me and bring me out. I prepared my note, but getting it out was the trouble. I found there were two grates, an inner and outer grate, and if I undertook to throw it out and it should strike either and fall on the sill of the window, I could not get it back or forth, as I had nothing with which to reach it. At length I thought of my spectacle-case, which was metal and heavy. I took out my spectacles and placed the note within and closed the case. I then looked to see if there was any one in the yard beside the workmen, and calling their attention, aimed as well as I could to miss the bars of iron. It struck the outer bar and the case opened, ...
E. B. Fleming was in a heap of trouble. His business failed. His mind was gone. He had been committed, quite against his will-- incarcerated in the North Texas Hospital for the Insane, at Terrell, Texas. This book is his own true account of what transpired before and after his escape from the lunatic asylum. This book from 1893 will give the modern reader plenteous insights into life in the late 19th century. It gives a perspective on the treatment of the mentally ill from a patient's point of view. It immerses the reader in the racial attitudes of the day. And it depects a style of life in a largely agrarian America that has vanished for all time.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum" by Mary Huestis Pengilly. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Moral treatment, the vogue of early American psychology, freed the mentally ill of their chains. They were, however, still relegated to separate institutions, commonly called asylums, for at least a brief respite from the stressors that were thought to cause their madness. Did it work? Were the patients actually treated more humanely? The Untold History of the First Illinois State Hospital for the Insane tells the stories of the people who were subjected to this new treatment on the American Frontier. As author Dr. Joe Squillace shows, the institution first had great difficulty in getting established, but the town of Jacksonville, Illinois, where the Hospital was built, rallied to make it a more humane and person-centered institution. The Hospital's leaders, too, attempted, within the constraints of their time, to treat their patients with respect. But, at a time when mental illness was still not well understood some patients were tortured and imprisoned, even though they were not insane, even by 19th century standards. What is revealed in Untold History is an institution that struggled, much like today's institutions do, to address the needs of those living with mental illness, in a culture that did not understand it fully.Dr. Squillace traces the history of the institution from its origins in the 1840s to the 1930s, outlining the various treatments administered at the institution. The book demonstrates that the institution was deeply embedded in the larger community, rife with tangled and notorious Illinois politics. Sadly, many unknown and forgotten people were buried unceremoniously in potter's fields after dark. Macabre stories ensue. The Untold History of the First Illinois State Hospital for the Insane provides a tangible connection to a rural Illinois county's struggle with treating mental illness as the medical community's understanding of it developed throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.
"Vital for all working in the mental health field . . . . Fascinating reading for anyone." —Choice E. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balance of civil rights that has resulted in numerous violent episodes and left a vulnerable population of mentally ill people homeless and victimized. Interweaving in-depth accounts of landmark cases in California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina with a history of legislation and changes in the mental health care system, Torrey gives shape to the magnitude of our failure and outlines what needs to be done to reverse this ongoing—and accelerating—disaster. A new epilogue on the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, brings this tragic story up to date.
This collection of essays explores the development of the lunatic asylum, and the concept of confinement for those considered insane, in different national contexts over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Leading scholars in the field of medical history have contributed extensive primary research through individual case studies in the context of the legal, social, economic, and political situations of thirteen different countries. The book represents the first truly international history of the mental hospital, and is, therefore, a landmark comparative study in the history of medicine.
Michael Keenes third book explores the dark, twisted history of insane asylums in 19th century New York. While most of these hospitals were opened with altruistic intentions, they quickly degraded into abuses, neglect of patients, and other horrors. Having worked in the mental health industry himself, Keene's experience in the mental health industry gives him special insight as he recounts the horrific stories of the institutions and the souls that once inhabited their wards, but have since been long forgotten.
The Vermont Asylum for the Insane is a fascinating account of one of the first institutions in America to treat mental illness as a medical condition. Founded in 1834, the Brattleboro Retreat (as it came to be known) pioneered new methods of care and treatment that were both humane and effective. This book offers a detailed history of the institution and its patients, as well as insights into the changing attitudes towards mental illness during the second half of the nineteenth century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.