But you, gentle reader, shall not say the same, for the author of this is about to startle the world, and 'the rest of mankind,' with a disclosure that shall make the learned Doctors of mad men, and rotten rogues tremble, and gladden the hearts of many a poor, man forsaken, kindred deserted, suffering, perishing being, shut within the walls of the innumerable Bastiles [sic] of our land, ycleped Insane Asylums.
-Isaac H. Hunt, "Astounding Disclosures! Three Years In A Mad House"