Alienist and Neurologist: A Quarterly Journal of Scientific, Clinical and Forensic Psychiatry and Neurology, Volume 30Charles Hamilton Hughes EV.E. Carreras, Steam Printer, Publisher and Binder, 1909 |
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Page 225 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 8 - Whatever turns the soul inward on itself, tends to concentre its forces, and to fit it for greater and stronger flights of science. By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged ; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose our game, the chase is certainly of service.
Page 107 - Nervous and Mental Diseases. By Archibald Church, MD, Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases and Medical Jurisprudence in Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago ; and Frederick Peterson, MD, President of the State Commission in Lunacy, New York ; Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Columbia University.
Page 224 - Can a medical man, conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime ? or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act, that he was acting contrary to law, or whether he was laboring under any and what delusion at the time?
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Page 223 - What is the law respecting alleged crimes committed by persons afflicted with insane delusion in respect of one or more particular subjects or persons : as, for instance, where at the time of the commission of the alleged crime the accused knew he was acting contrary to law, but did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some supposed public benefit?
Page 76 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.