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" 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 76
by Francis Tiffany - 1891 - 392 pages
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The Survey, Volume 7

1901 - 656 pages
...almshouses and jails of Massachusetts, where insane persons were often found, to use her own words, "in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained,...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." From Maine to Texas and the west she traveled through those long years, studying the treatment of the...
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