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... practice any evidence of increased intellectual power . Imbecility of intellect is one termination of insanity : the degree may vary , the lighter cases being called imbecility , the graver dementia . These states will be described ...
... practice any evidence of increased intellectual power . Imbecility of intellect is one termination of insanity : the degree may vary , the lighter cases being called imbecility , the graver dementia . These states will be described ...
Page 46
... practice to place a patient for security in the bedroom of two or three other patients ; I do not call this watching , in fact by this means the suicidal is left to the mercy of his drowsy and insane companions , who may even applaud ...
... practice to place a patient for security in the bedroom of two or three other patients ; I do not call this watching , in fact by this means the suicidal is left to the mercy of his drowsy and insane companions , who may even applaud ...
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... practice : A young girl of slight proportions imagined herself too large to go through a very large door . An old woman believed she had cats in her inside , " black cats and gray cats . " She referred , too , to her hypochondriac ...
... practice : A young girl of slight proportions imagined herself too large to go through a very large door . An old woman believed she had cats in her inside , " black cats and gray cats . " She referred , too , to her hypochondriac ...
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... practice . The motor symptoms in this middle stage are most marked : I will therefore begin with them . You will scarcely visit an asylum , especially if you are in the male wards , without meeting with one or more patients walking to ...
... practice . The motor symptoms in this middle stage are most marked : I will therefore begin with them . You will scarcely visit an asylum , especially if you are in the male wards , without meeting with one or more patients walking to ...
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... practice among the insane . I am disposed , to believe , that the cases described under this head differ , pathologically , from those typical cases to which I have confined my descriptions : -that , in fact , they do not be- long to ...
... practice among the insane . I am disposed , to believe , that the cases described under this head differ , pathologically , from those typical cases to which I have confined my descriptions : -that , in fact , they do not be- long to ...
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Page 266 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
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