Supplement to the Croonian lectures : medical testimony and evidence in cases of lunacy / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Supplement to the Croonian lectures : medical testimony and evidence in cases of lunacy / by Thomas Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUPPLEMENT TO THE CROONIA'N LECTURES. TN the work, to wliich these pages are a sup- plement, I advert to ' a peculiar state, under which,' I observe, ' the leading subject for con- sideration is an orgasm, or an intense and some- times sudden desire, which leads the sufferer to perform some criminal act; this orgasm, not always susceptible of being construed into de- lirium, as not being always attended by a morbid delusion, or by a state of inconsecutive thought. In regard to this condition of the case, I observe, a question instantly arises, whetlier, in the ab- sence of direct, it admits of constructive, proof of delirium,* that is, of a morbid state of in- tellect ; or, in the absence of such proof, must be removed into the category of vice?' This subject, partially alluded to in relation to the