Edinburgh Medical Journal, Volume 17, Part 2Oliver and Boyd, 1872 |
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Page 870 - But however calm and rational the patient may appear to be, during the lucid intervals, as they are called, and while enjoying the quietude of domestic society, or the limited range of a well-regulated asylum, it must never be supposed, that he is in as perfect possession of his senses, as if he had never been ill.
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Page 867 - But whatever may be its essence, every one must be conscious that the faculties and functions of the mind are various and distinct, as are the powers and functions of our physical organization. The...
Page 874 - There is no kind of doubt of it, and it has been admitted that is the principle. If you can establish that the party afflicted habitually by a malady of the mind has intermissions, and if there was an intermission of the disorder at the time of the act, that being proved is sufficient, and the general habitual insanity will...
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Page 874 - By a perfect interval, I do not mean a cooler moment, an abatement of pain or violence, or of a higher state of torture, — a mind relieved from excessive pressure; but an interval in which the mind, having thrown off the disease, had recovered its general habit.
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