The History of the first inebriate asylum in the worldAuthor [J.E. Turner], 1888 - 491 pages |
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acts of Assignment alcohol Anson G assigned and transferred Asylum stock Attorney or substitute Ausburn Birdsall Beekman Binghamton Birdsall board of trustees Capital Stock Connecticut constitute and appoint corporation Court delirium tremens deponent dipsomaniac disease Edward Turner ex-Judge execute all necessary free beds friends fund hand and seal Henry Henry W hereby ratifying hereunto set Inebriate Asylum inebriety insane asylums institution intemperance James John Joseph Mullin Judge lawful Attorney irrevocable Legislature medical treatment meeting Millard Fillmore moral name and stead necessary acts patients persons to substitute physician presents do bargain President Prof proxy ratifying and confirming Reuben Hyde Walworth Ruggles Sealed and delivered sell stockholders subscribed subscription substitute or substitutes substitutes shall lawfully thousand eight hundred tion transfer and set transfer unto transferred his Asylum true and lawful Valentine Mott value received virtue hereof vote Willard Parker William Wilton Woman's National Hospital writer York State Inebriate
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Page 134 - And their warm tears: but all hath suffer'd change: For surely now our household hearths are cold: Our sons inherit us: our looks are strange: And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy. Or else the island princes over-bold Have eat our substance, and the minstrel sings Before them of the ten years' war in Troy, And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things.
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Page 134 - ... enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake. And music in his ears his beating heart did make.
Page 405 - Norfolk state hospital, any female, who is subject to dipsomania or inebriety either in public or private, or who is so addicted to the intemperate use of narcotics or stimulants as to have lost the power of self-control...
Page 202 - So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
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Page 134 - Dear is the memory of our wedded lives, And dear the last embraces of our wives And their warm tears; but all hath suffer'd change; For surely now our household hearths are cold, Our sons inherit us, our looks are strange, And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy. Or else the island princes over-bold Have eat our substance, and the minstrel sings Before them of the ten years...