 I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.  Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Page 76by Francis Tiffany - 1891 - 392 pagesFull view - About this book
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...seen," she proceeded to call attention "to the present state of insane persons confined within the Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls,...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!" 16 The facts were irrefutable, and they brought an instant reaction from the people of the state. The... | |
 | Grace Abbott - 2000 - 404 pages
...the Legislature of Massachusetts.* In it she described how the insane were then "confined within that Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls,...naked, beaten with rods and lashed into obedience." She reported that annually with the town's poor, the insane were put up at auction and sold to the... | |
 | Edwin Fuller Torrey, Judy Miller - 2001 - 442 pages
...almshouse in Massachusetts. Her 1843 address to the legislature called attention "to the present slate of Insane Persons confined within this Commonwealth,...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!" She apologized for being "obliged to speak with great plainness, and to reveal many things revolting... | |
 | Gary L. Albrecht, Katherine D. Seelman, Michael Bury - 2001 - 868 pages
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 | Edwin Fuller Torrey, Joan Stieber, Jonathan Ezekiel - 1998 - 174 pages
...prisons, and more wretched in our AimsHouses. "I proceed, Gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the state of Insane Persons confined within this Commonwealth,...Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!"14 After finishing her report in Massachusetts, Dix moved on to New Jersey where she proceeded... | |
 | Lawrence J. Friedman, Mark D. McGarvie - 2003 - 488 pages
...jails, and almshouses to the state legislature in 1843: I proceed, gentlemen ... to call your artention to the present state of insane persons confined within...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience . . . Lincoln. A woman in a cage. Medford. One idiotic subject chained, and one in a close stall for... | |
 | Stanley S. Herr, Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin, Harold Hongju Koh - 2003 - 582 pages
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 | Mary Melvin Petronella - 2004 - 340 pages
...expand the mental hospital in Worcester to meet the needs of the many people who were "conf1ned ... in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience" (Dix, quoted in Sicherman and Green 1:487). She took her crusade across the country, changing the minds... | |
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...Massachusetts is a masterpiece of horror. The author of Original Moral Tales for Children now described "the present state of Insane Persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, A woman with mental illness is beaten and her head is dunked into cold water. These "cures" did not... | |
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