Medical testimony and evidence in cases of lunacy; being the Croonian lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1853. With an essay on the conditions of mental soundness.

  • Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871.
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1854
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    OX MEDICAL TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE IN CASES OF LUNACY. LECTURE I. Legal Division of the Subject of Diseased Mind.— Lunacy, the Generic Term ; Insanity, Idiocy, Un- soundness, being Species, varied by the Act of 1853.— Insanity considered in its Relation to Delirium ; this having Two Forms, viz., Incoherency, or Tncon- secutiveness, and Delusion.—Two Forms of Delusion, viz., Objective and Notional.—Cases illustrative of the Application of these Forms of Delirium as Tests of Insanity.—Delirium Tremens legally considered. —Doctrine and Practice of the Law in Reference to Lucid Intervals.—Dr. Rae’s Remarks on this Subject considered.—Lord Brougham’s Judgment. T HAVE formerly endeavoured to investigate the general subject of medical proof. In my present Lectures, I propose to offer some remarks on the noblest of its departments, the pathology of Mind; and on that in its noblest phase, where it is brought into contact with great judicial questions. The circumstances of the time re- commend the subject for consideration; for it is certain, that, while, on the one hand, the B