Ten Days in a Mad-House
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- or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World's Girl Correspondent
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1. Front matter2. INTRODUCTION.3. CHAPTER I. A DELICATE MISSION.4. CHAPTER II. PREPARING FOR THE ORDEAL.5. CHAPTER III. IN THE TEMPORARY HOME.6. CHAPTER IV. JUDGE DUFFY AND THE POLICE.7. CHAPTER V. PRONOUNCED INSANE.8. CHAPTER VI. IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.9. CHAPTER VII. THE GOAL IN SIGHT.10. CHAPTER VIII. INSIDE THE MAD-HOUSE.11. CHAPTER IX. AN EXPERT(?) AT WORK.12. CHAPTER X. MY FIRST SUPPER.13. CHAPTER XI. IN THE BATH.14. CHAPTER XII. PROMENADING WITH LUNATICS.15. CHAPTER XIII. CHOKING AND BEATING PATIENTS.16. CHAPTER XIV. SOME UNFORTUNATE STORIES.17. CHAPTER XV. INCIDENTS OF ASYLUM LIFE.18. CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST GOOD-BYE.19. CHAPTER XVII. THE GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION.20. Miscellaneous Sketches.21. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES