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Lunacy dyspepsia . Undoubtedl and other y disease there which is , just does as there not disable Is a good people deal from of is the of
going come daily suffering In _aboiit contact their to . those And ordinary afflicted as the business presence with , it , but and of general which to all with unhealthiness whom source they is in fatal disease
due to the same several causes as those which result , whimsicalness development and often serves , so of to the ungovernable indicate prevalence more temper clearl of restlessness y their or of nature , hereditary of excitement and process intem , of of
-, , the perance straws , serves which to indicate show how the s the ources currents of mental are flowing disease . towards These the are of is
supposed dreaded gulf to have of insanity been the , while messenger some of special doom to wind the wretch calamity who is
whirle In old d into times the the abyss mad . were believed to be possessed of devils ,
which and long it led after the the whi belief had and p chains erished and , the darkness barbarous which treatment were to to ps
subdue When the the fiend , Committee , awaited of the 1827 hap was less moved sufferer for . a _frightful state of
, things Lord Shaffcesbury was revealed " . I do " Bad not as think was that the evidence it stated the then real given condition , " says
can of things state at that all equal I , saw to and what heard it was things in reality far exceeding , for I am any certain thing that that I Just take this
fact appears in upon one of the the face large of metrop any one olitan of the houses reports nearl . y two hundred
patients I know : were that as placed much every as three night under after mechanic the , act al restraint of 1829 ; came and
Into abuses operation one of , when the superintendents we were doing years admitted all we could to the to commissioners remove those
that between to , be found eighty in and chains ninety patients morning in . the I mention house under these his things care
because come were after they us never ht can to know be seen every what now things , and have I think existed that within those who the oug
and memory asylum a , great they of man number see . every At of the thing persons present cleanl in y this time , orderl generation when y , decent peop cannot le , go and into believe quiet an ;
that there ever was anything terrible in the management of that insanity . went When into contained we began nearl our visitations one hundred , one and of the fifty first patients rooms ,
in every we form of madness ; a large y proportion of them chained to the wallsome melancholysome furious , but the noise and roaring
of were disease , such that and we positivel _fprm , y could of madness not hear was each there other , horrible ; every form and every
priated miserable to . the Turning women from In that "that room court , we there went were into from a court fifteen appro to
-. the twenty waist women with , whose a rope sole , they dress were was covered a piece with of red filth cloth , crawling tied in such round on
their knees . I do not think I ever witnessed brutes a
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/4/
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