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Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum: A True Story of Life in an Asylum
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Series: Diary Written in a Lunatic Asylum - Illustrated
ISBN13: 9781979322164
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 1 2017
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum
By Mary Huestis Pengilly
Diary from a Lunatic Asylum
A True Story of Life in an Asylum
They will not allow me to go home, and I must write these things down for fear I forget. It will help to pass the time away. It is very hard to endure this prison life, and know that my sons think me insane when I am not.
How unkind Mrs. Mills is today; does she think this sort of treatment is for the good of our health? I begged for milk today, and she can't spare me any; she has not enough for all the old women, she says. I don't wish to deprive any one of that which they require, but have I not a right to all I require to feed me and make me well? All I do need is good nourishing food, and I know better than any one else can what I require to build me up and make me as I was before I met with this strange change of condition. I remember telling the Doctor, on his first visit to my room, that I only needed biscuit and milk and beef tea to make me well. He rose to his feet and said, I know better than any other man. That was all I heard him say, and he walked out, leaving me without a word of sympathy, or a promise that I should have anything.
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