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Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum

Hiram Chase

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We arrived there the same day, and I was locked up in the third story of the building, with about forty raving maniacs. Others must judge of my feelings when I sat down and looked around me and saw where I was, among entire strangers, and all these disfranchised like myself. One of my first thoughts, after I arrived there, was: “Would to God that I were crazy—so crazy that I could not realize where I am, or what I am, or what will be my future.”

But more of this in its appropriate place. I now wish to appropriate a chapter to a particular subject, viz.: to the manner in which patients are sent to the asylum, and the laws of the State of New York on that subject.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] My bowels had been obstinately constipated for ten or twelve days; when the medicine operated, I was better.

[B] I shall never forget that, while on our way to Utica on the ca. . . Read More

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Lack of detail, but interesting to follow.