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Page 27
... complete ; but in other matters , the evidence of intellectual disturbance is comparatively slight : " there is no doubt that all the mental faculties are more or less affected , but the affection is more strikingly manifested in some ...
... complete ; but in other matters , the evidence of intellectual disturbance is comparatively slight : " there is no doubt that all the mental faculties are more or less affected , but the affection is more strikingly manifested in some ...
Page 60
... complete recovery of the patient's intellects , ascertained by repeated exami- nations of his conversation , and by constant observation of his conduct , for a time sufficient to enable the superintendent to form a correct judg- ment ...
... complete recovery of the patient's intellects , ascertained by repeated exami- nations of his conversation , and by constant observation of his conduct , for a time sufficient to enable the superintendent to form a correct judg- ment ...
Page 64
... complete , there is cogent pre- sumptive evidence in favour of the sanity or insanity of the party . With such rules to decide the point , the juryman could arrive at as correct a conclusion , as the most experienced and enlightened ...
... complete , there is cogent pre- sumptive evidence in favour of the sanity or insanity of the party . With such rules to decide the point , the juryman could arrive at as correct a conclusion , as the most experienced and enlightened ...
Page 79
... complete ignorance in all those cases in which more than what is called common sense is required to arrive at the proper conclu- sion , and where experience and knowledge of facts alone should entitle to decide . To a certain extent ...
... complete ignorance in all those cases in which more than what is called common sense is required to arrive at the proper conclu- sion , and where experience and knowledge of facts alone should entitle to decide . To a certain extent ...
Page 86
... complete adoption of the plan . A system with some such machinery as we have thus roughly sketched would be calculated to confer great benefit upon the public ; it would add to their security , by increasing the certainty of the punish ...
... complete adoption of the plan . A system with some such machinery as we have thus roughly sketched would be calculated to confer great benefit upon the public ; it would add to their security , by increasing the certainty of the punish ...
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action ACTONIAN PRIZE admitted attention brain CHEMISTRY cloth Coloured committed condition correct crime criminal lunatic delusion derangement DISEASES disorder eccentricity effect Engravings on Wood evidence F.R.S. A MANUAL Fasciculi favour Fcap Felo de se Foolscap 8vo Foreign Medical Review Fourth Edition Gazette ground of insanity GUY'S HOSPITAL homicidal HOSPITAL human HYPOCHONDRIACAL Illustrations on Wood impulse individual instance intellectual irresponsibility Journal of Medicine judge judgment jury justice knowledge LONDON lucid interval manslaughter means Medical Journal MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE ment mental unsoundness MIDWIFERY monomania moral morbid motive murder nature numerous Illustrations object offences opinion PATHOLOGY perpetration person PHARMACOPOEIA PHYSICIAN PHYSIOLOGY Plates plea of insanity possess Post 8vo power of control practitioner present principles prisoner profession punishment reason recommend reference render responsible ROYAL sane sanity SCROFULA Second Edition society sound student suicide SURGEON SURGERY SYPHILITIC Third Edition tion treatise unsound mind URETHRA WILLIAM GULL wrong
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