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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    markable ability and sound judgment with which all its views are conceived and supported. Though not entirely nor chiefly devoted to the legal re- lations of the insane, yet the medico-legal student will find his views of insanity enlarged and im- proved by a careful perusal of it; and every physician will do well to ponder the suggestions contained in the chapter on the Duties of medical men when consulted concerning the state of a patient's mind In the Judgments of Sir John Nicholl, (contained in Haggard, Phillimore and Addams's Reports) in the Ecclesiastical Courts, which, in their jurisdiction of wills, have frequent occasion to inquire into the effect of mental diseases on the powers of the mind, are also to be found, not only some masterly analyses of heterogeneous and conflicting evi- dence, but an acquaintance with the phenomena of insanity in its various forms, that would be creditable to the practical physician, and an application of it to the case under consideration, that satisfies the most cautious with the correct- ness of the decision. In Germany this branch of legal medicine has received a little 'more attention, and in a work entitled, Die Psycologie in ihren Hauptanwen- dungen auf die Rechtspflege, {Psychology in its chief Applications to the Administration of Jus- tice) by J. C. Hoffbauer, a Doctor of Laws and Professor in the University of Halle, and pub- lished in 1809, we had, till quite recently, the only complete and methodical treatise on insanity in connexion with its legal relations. It bears the impress of a philosophical mind, accustomed to observe the mental operations when under the