A treatise on medical jurisprudence and insanity : containing chapters on imbecility, nervousness, mental deficiency, drunkenness, delirium, and mental diseases in general / By Issac Ray ... with an introductory essay by D. Spillan.

  • Ray, Isaac, 1807-1881.
Date:
1839
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Credit: A treatise on medical jurisprudence and insanity : containing chapters on imbecility, nervousness, mental deficiency, drunkenness, delirium, and mental diseases in general / By Issac Ray ... with an introductory essay by D. Spillan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    blish the Legal relations of the insane in con- formity to the pr< te of our know' respecting their diseas •. In furtherance of this object, In' has given a succinct d< scriptioD of the different Bpecies of ii ad the characters by which they arc distinguished from one another, so that the professional student may have some means of recognising them in practice, and thence deducing, in i consequences by a hun and enlightened i i of all the I lie is will aware that he hfl I that will not, at first Bight, meet with the cordial assent of all his readers. He can onlj in justification, that they have app him to be founded on well-obsi rved, well-authen- ticated facts, and that as BUch, it was anine tive duty required by the claims of humanity and truth, to present them in the stroi possible aspect. Before being condemned for substituting visionary and speculative fane; the place of those maxims and practices which have come down to us on the authority of our ancestors, and been sanctioned by the approval of all succeeding times, he hopes that the ground on which those alleged fancies have been built, will be carefully, candidly, and dispassionately- examined. Of the manifold imperfections of his work, no one can be more sensible than the author himself: but if it succeed in directing at- tention to the subject, and putting others on the tract of inquiry, it will, at the very least, have been followed by one beneficial result. Eastport, March, 20th, 1838.