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... regulation being shown , and the possi- bility and practicability of a means of improvement demonstrated , reason and humanity alike demand that our legislators should avail themselves thereof . The relation 2 INTRODUCTION .
... regulation being shown , and the possi- bility and practicability of a means of improvement demonstrated , reason and humanity alike demand that our legislators should avail themselves thereof . The relation 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... improvement by judi- cious educational training ; by the latter we under- stand a state of dementia , the result of age . In this last group of mental unsoundness the individual is , from his inability to put ideas together , of course ...
... improvement by judi- cious educational training ; by the latter we under- stand a state of dementia , the result of age . In this last group of mental unsoundness the individual is , from his inability to put ideas together , of course ...
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... improvement of the offender . 2ndly . To deter him from committing mischief in future or else to render him powerless to do so . 3rdly . To set an example for others to take warning by his fate . It has been wisely and truly said , that ...
... improvement of the offender . 2ndly . To deter him from committing mischief in future or else to render him powerless to do so . 3rdly . To set an example for others to take warning by his fate . It has been wisely and truly said , that ...
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... improvement and prevent from future mischief the sane criminal , and which may , when applied to him , act as a beacon to induce other sane persons to shun the rock upon which he has split , must prove useless and - worse than use- less ...
... improvement and prevent from future mischief the sane criminal , and which may , when applied to him , act as a beacon to induce other sane persons to shun the rock upon which he has split , must prove useless and - worse than use- less ...
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... improvement of the offender is lost sight of in our anxiety to im- press a salutary lesson of dread upon the minds of our fellow - creatures ; and hence , by analogy , we may draw precedent for the exception we raise in the case of the ...
... improvement of the offender is lost sight of in our anxiety to im- press a salutary lesson of dread upon the minds of our fellow - creatures ; and hence , by analogy , we may draw precedent for the exception we raise in the case of the ...
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action ACTONIAN PRIZE admitted attention brain CHEMISTRY cloth Coloured committed condition crime criminal lunatic delusion derangement DISEASES 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 lunatic asylums 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 PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS practitioner present principles prisoner profession punishment reason recommend 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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