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TEN YEARS AND TEN MONTHS IN LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN DIFFERENT STATES. TRANSACTIONS OF A SINGLE DAY. PREFACE.

MY GOD FIRST AND THEN THE PEOPLE.

CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV.

MY CAPTURE AND RIDE TO THE ASYLUM. Some of the Main House Patients and Attendants. WHO GOVERNS THE INMATES? MY WIFE'S FIRST VISIT TO THE ASYLUM. A WORD TO HUSBANDS AND WIVES. APPARENTLY A GARDEN OF PARADISE. THE GARDEN CONVERTED INTO SHADY WALKS. MY TREATMENT IN THE MAIN HOUSE. MY BOARD AND BEDDING. REMARKS. MY WIFE'S LAST VISIT TO THE MAIN HOUSE. MY REMOVAL FROM THE MAIN HOUSE TO THE INCURABLE ONE. SUICIDE AT THE MARSHALL INFIRMARY—A FEMALE NURSE HANGS HERSELF TO THE BALUSTERS—THE CAUSE A MYSTERY.

CHAPTER V.

JUDGED INCURABLE, JULY 3, 1861—ROOMING WITH EBENEZER SCOTT. INCURABLE HOUSE. AFTER THE REIGN OF CHRIS. DOCTORS, ATTENDANTS AND PATIENTS IN THE INCURABLE HOUSE. NAMES OF ATTENDANTS AND DOCTORS IN THE INCURABLE HOUSE. NAMES OF THE MALE PATIENTS IN THE INCURABLE HOUSE. FEMALE PATIENTS IN THE INCURABLE HOUSE. REIGN OF ALFRED. SCOTT. ALFRED'S REIGN CONTINUED THOUGH UNDER ISABEL MAGDALENE. ALFRED'S REIGN CONTINUED. ALFRED STILL HOLDS THE REIN OF GOVERNMENT. REMARKS. ALFRED THE INTEMPERATE ATTENDANT'S CRUELTY TO JOHN SMALLEY, A PATIENT. MY WIFE VISITING ME IN THE INCURABLE HOUSE WITH BROTHER B. AND NEPHEW. TREATMENT OF J. H. HAM BY ALFRED.

CHAPTER VI.

FRED THE ATTENDANT AFTER ALFRED. SECOND TRANSACTION OF FRED AGAINST HIS VICTIM. A FEW THOUGHTS SUGGESTED. ATTENDANT AFTER FRED, NAME UNKNOWN. TRANSACTIONS IN MY ROOM. AFTER THE GAGGING ATTENDANT LEFT. FALL OF 1864, VISITED BY MR. AND MRS. G. WADSWORTH AND MY WIFE. THOMAS HALY, INCURABLE HOUSE ATTENDANT. MY WIFE, DAUGHTER AND MRS. ALEXANDER'S VISIT. AFTER NOALS. SUFFERINGS OF WM. JEFFERSON, A LUNATIC. SECOND SUFFERINGS OF WM. JEFFERSON, THE NEGRO. KIRK HULL, OF BERLIN. REMARKS.

CHAPTER VII.

JOHN P. BACON, OF LANSINGBURGH. JOHN P. BACON'S TREATMENT AND SUFFERINGS BY WILLIAM ANDERSON. ANDERSON. LATER. ANDERSON AGAIN. HABIT A STRONG POWER. ONE OF THE MANY SUFFERINGS OF GENERAL SCHUYLER, OF WEST TROY. ISABEL'S TREATMENT TO MALE AND FEMALE PATIENTS. TREATMENT OF THE PATIENT CALLED AUNTA BY ISABEL. ISABEL'S CRUEL TREATMENT AGAINST MISS LAWN. BRATTLEBOROUGH ASYLUM, VT. MY RIDE TO BRATTLEBOROUGH ASYLUM. WHAT I SAW IN MY VISION DESCRIBED. SUFFERINGS OF MECHEUM THE BOY. PROVERBS. THE YOUNG MR. REED. JOEL SWAIN. JOHN EYCLESHYMER, OF PITTSTOWN. TROY LUNATIC ASYLUM INCURABLE HOUSE.

CHAPTER VIII.