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1847 March 2 . C. Haven ALS to A[mariah] Brigham; Evansville [Currently Evans Mills, New York].

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Box 2
Abstract:
Letter addressed to the superintendent of the State Asylum in Utica, New York, regarding Mr. W[illia]m Bennett, an approximately 40-year-old farmer. "No earthly cause can be assigned for his present derangement – it is about two months since allarming [sic.] symptoms were discovered." Bennett was imagining his property being wasted, his family being "reduced to wretchedness," and that his neighbors despised him. Bennett attempted suicide twice – the first time with a knife and the second time by trying to drown in a spring. "The Derangement in the sistem [sic.] is manifest by witnessing now & then a spasm producing involuntary motion of the body & limbs – (his mother has been Deranged for 20 years)." Requesting that Bennett be admitted to the Utica asylum.
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Collection

Science and Medicine collection, 1702-1936
Total components 316
Last indexed 2024-08-05