10 Days in a Madhouse

Nellie Bly

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9783748101925
• Edition: 1

ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Did I think I had the courage to go through such an ordeal as the mission would demand? Could I assume the characteristics of insanity to such a degree that I could pass the doctors, live for a week among the insane without the authorities there finding out that I was only a "chiel amang 'em takin' notes?" I said I believed I could. I had some faith in my own ability as an actress and thought I could assume insanity long enough to accomplish any mission intrusted to me. Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

Table of contents

• 10 Days in a Madhouse
• CHAPTER I. A DELICATE MISSION.
• CHAPTER II. PREPARING FOR THE ORDEAL.
• CHAPTER III. IN THE TEMPORARY HOME.
• CHAPTER IV. JUDGE DUFFY AND THE POLICE.
• CHAPTER V. PRONOUNCED INSANE.
• CHAPTER VI. IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.
• CHAPTER VII. THE GOAL IN SIGHT.
• CHAPTER VIII. INSIDE THE MADHOUSE.
• CHAPTER IX. AN EXPERT(?) AT WORK.
• CHAPTER X. MY FIRST SUPPER.
• CHAPTER XI. IN THE BATH.
• CHAPTER XII. PROMENADING WITH LUNATICS.
• CHAPTER XIII. CHOKING AND BEATING PATIENTS.
• CHAPTER XIV. SOME UNFORTUNATE STORIES.
• CHAPTER XV. INCIDENTS OF ASYLUM LIFE.
• CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST GOOD-BYE.
• CHAPTER XVII. THE GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION.
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