Ideal Characters of the Officers of a Hospital for the Insane (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Ideal Characters of the Officers of a Hospital for the InsaneI ought to state in this connection, that during the morning a pile of hospital reports hind/y sent me la! Their writers, which had been accumulating unread until it reached a formidable height, raised in me such a pang of self-reproach, that I deter mined, then and there, to be no longer a stranger to their contents, and so 1 went through the pile, beginning at the top, and stopping not until I reached the bottom. I mention this incident be cause persons with a psychological turn of 'mind may possiblyfind in it a clew to the subsequent adventure. The first thing of which [was con scious after entering the realm of dreams, was that of rummaging an old chest of drawers just bought at auction for the sake of its antiquity, which seemed to have been a receptacle of all the various family papers that had been allowed for an indefinite period to escape the waste bashet.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.