A Manual of psychological medicine

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Lindsay & Blakiston, 1874 - 824 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 15 - ... and that the said AB is a lunatic [or an idiot, or a person of unsound mind], and a proper person to be taken charge of and detained under care and treatment, and that I have formed this opinion upon the following grounds, viz. : — 1. Facts indicating insanity observed by myself [here state the facts]. 2. Other facts (if any) indicating insanity, communicated to me by others [here state the information, and from whom].
Pàgina 24 - There is a partial insanity 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 are yet under a particular dementia in respect of some particular discourses, subjects, or applications, — or else it is partial in respect of degrees...
Pàgina 471 - ... ingenuity of the bar, and all the authority of the Court, could not make him say a single syllable upon that topic, which had put an end to the indictment before, although he still had the same indelible impression upon his mind, as he signified to those who were near him ; but, conscious that the delusion had occasioned his defeat at Westminster, he obstinately persisted in holding it back.
Pàgina 24 - A lunatic or non compos mentis, is one who hath had understanding, but by disease, grief, or other accident, hath lost the use of his reason.
Pàgina 235 - The walk home— a distance about a quarter of a mile — was very laborious, and in taking off my stocking I found a circle round the ankle, as if it had been painted with red currant juice, with a large spot of the same on the outer part. By morning the whole foot was inflamed, and I was a prisoner to my bed many days.
Pàgina 403 - Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do. And the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
Pàgina 402 - A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye and sunken, which you have not; an unquestionable spirit, which you have not; a beard neglected, which you have not: but I pardon you for that, for, simply, your having in beard is a younger brother's revenue. Then, your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
Pàgina 273 - As has again and again been shown, the unconsciousness of right and wrong is one thing, and the powerlessness through cerebral defect or disease to do right is another. To confound them in an asylum would have the effect of transferring a considerable number of the inmates thence to the treadmill or the gallows.
Pàgina 25 - 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.
Pàgina 248 - ... utterly incorrigible throughout life, that it is almost certain that any jury before whom he might be brought would satisfy their doubts by returning him insane, which, in such a case, is the most humane line to pursue.

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