Medical Testimony and Evidence in Cases of Lunacy: With an Essay on the Conditions of Mental SoundnessJohn W. Parker and Son, 1854 - 152 pages |
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adduced admitted affirm applied CARTWRIGHT certificate character CHARLES KINGSLEY Cheaper Edition civil committed condition considered courts crime criminal acts Cummins Dadd delinquent delirium derangement DESTRUCTIVE ORGASM discase distinction endeavoured Epictetus Esquirol evidence Exeter College exist expressed faculties false perceptions favour Foolscap Octavo grounds homicidal orgasm Howison hypothesis idiocy idiot Illustrations incoherency inconsecutiveness influence insane delusion intel intellectual involve irresponsibility John Howison JOHN WILLIAM DONALDSON judges jury justice kind laboured latter Lord Brougham Lord Wharton lucid interval lunacy lunatic medical witnesses mental disease MENTAL SOUNDNESS monomania moral insanity morbid delusion murder notional delusion object observed opinions Oriel College patient person perversion Pinel plea of insanity possessed Post Octavo present presumed Prichard principle proof proved question reason recognised reference relation remarks respect responsibility sane says secondary punishment sense sion supposed symptoms term Thomas Waller thought tion trial tricity truth unsoundness of mind Waller Waring
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Page 133 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 3 - AB is a lunatic, (or an insane person, or an idiot or a person of unsound mind...
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Page 46 - I think the strongest and best proof that can arise as to a lucid interval is that which arises from the act itself ; that I look upon as the thing to be first examined, and if it can be proved and established that it is a rational act rationally done the whole case is proved.
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Page 65 - He is without the sense of shame, or glory, as some men are without the sense of smelling ; and therefore, a good name to him, is no more than a precious ointment would be, to these.