A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of InsanityC. Little and J. Brown, 1838 - 480 pagina's "A comprehensive study of the legal aspects of insanity and its relationship with medicine. The author explores the different types of insanity and their symptoms, as well as the various legal issues that arise in cases involving insanity. He also discusses the role of medical professionals in assessing and treating individuals with mental illness, and the importance of accurate diagnosis and treatment in legal proceedings." - Amazon |
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Pagina 15 - of mind, and a total insanity. The former is " either in respect to things, quoad hoc vel illud « insanire. Some persons, that have a competent " use of reason in respect of some subjects...
Pagina 156 - ... do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles; for by the violence of their imaginations, having taken their fancies for realities, they make right deductions from them.
Pagina 328 - ... derangement. The evidence in such a case, applying to stated intervals, ought to go to the state and habit of the person, and not to the accidental interview of any individual, or to the degree of self-possession in any particular act...
Pagina 163 - He was once a man ; and of some little name; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest: for by the immediate hand of an avenging God. his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing.
Pagina 167 - Moral insanity, or madness consisting in a morbid perversion of the natural feelings, affections, inclinations, temper, habits, moral dispositions, and natural impulses, without any remarkable disorder or defect of the intellect or knowing and reasoning faculties, and particularly without any insane illusion or hallucination.
Pagina 142 - It is the prolonged departure, without an adequate external cause, from the state of feeling and modes of thinking usual to the individual when in health, that is the true feature of disorder in mind...
Pagina 433 - The prisoner was unquestionably insane at the time of committing the offense, and the question made at the bar is whether . insanity, whose remote cause is habitual drunkenness, is or is not an excuse in a court of law for a homicide committed by the party, while so insane, but not at the time intoxicated or under the influence of liquor. We are clearly of opinion that insanity is a competent excuse in such a case. In general, insanity is an excuse for the commission of every crime, because the party...
Pagina 194 - From the moment she witnessed this fearful sight, she felt a desire to fire houses, which, whenever she had drank a few coppers' worth of spirit, was converted into an irresistible impulse. She could give no other reason, nor show any other motive, for firing so many houses, than this impulse which drove her to it. Notwithstanding the fear, the terror, and the repentance she felt, in every instance, she went and did it afresh.
Pagina 210 - ... upon it, she was seized with the desire of strangling it. This idea made her shudder ; she carried the infant to its cradle, and went out in order to get rid of so horrid a thought. The cries of the little being, who required nourishment, recalled her to the house : she experienced still more strongly the impulse to destroy it. She hastened away again, haunted by the...
Pagina 10 - Lunacy, that the party is so far debilitated in his mind as to be incapable of the general management of his affairs, quashed ; and a new Commission issued : a " Mdius Inquirendum