Mad-houses! : Sketch of the seduction and treatment, il-legal and non-medical of Miss [Elisabeth] Stabback / [Thomas Little].

  • Little, Thomas, pseud.
Date:
[1831]
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Credit: Mad-houses! : Sketch of the seduction and treatment, il-legal and non-medical of Miss [Elisabeth] Stabback / [Thomas Little]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 ^angrrous illness, and milk-fever, which brought on insanity, and rendered it necessary to place her, in a private asylum—that she had, always been treated, as a lady, and had enjoyed the greatest indulgence—but that she, invariably, refused to give the address of her relations, although he had used every means, to induce the disclosure and promised to restore her, to them The infernal hypocrite, now, went on to qualify his intelligence, so as to prevent the chance of inconvenient communication, and, at the same time, pave the way, for a renewal of some, at least, of that advantage, of which, he had been deprived, by Jeyes’s determi¬ nation. North said that Miss Stabback was at that moment, too ill, to be visited, and he fra red she was beyond all nossibihv of resto- ration : bathe would support her, in the same respectable and comfortable asylum, for one hundred pounds a year ! Mr. Stabback, who was all gratitude sur¬ prise and joy, related to a gentleman, and friend of the writer of this, the particulars of the kind visit of the good Samaritan, Mr. North. The gentleman, however, less«eothu»