"I learnt, that when these people were first rescued out of their misery, their healths were much impaired, and their tempers more so: to restore the first, all medicinal care was taken, and air and exercise assisted greatly in their recovery; but to cure the malady of the mind, and conquer that internal source of unhappiness, was a work of longer time."
A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent
Five entries in ESTC (1762, 1763, 1764, 1767). Second edition, corrected in 1764; third edition in 1767.<br>
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Reading Sarah Scott, <u>A Description of Millenium Hall</u>, ed. Gary Kelly (Ontario: Broadview Literary Texts, 2001).<br>
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See also <u>A Description of Millenium Hall, and the Country Adjacent: Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections, as May excite in the Reader proper Sentiments of Humanity, and lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue. By A Gentleman on his Travels</u> (London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1762). &lt;<a href="http://archive.org/details/descriptionofmil00scot">Link to archive.org</a>&gt;