A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and Synonyms of the Terms Used in Medical Psychology with the Symptoms, Treatment, and Pathology of Insanity and the Law of Lunacy in Great Britain and Ireland, Volumen1Daniel Hack Tuke J. & A. Churchill, 1892 - 1477 páginas |
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action activity acute affection alcohol alienist aphasia appear asylum attack attention bath become blood body brain catalepsy cause cent centres cerebellum cerebral cerebrum changes character chorea chronic condition consciousness convolution convulsions criminal defect delirium tremens delusions dementia depression dipsomania double form emotional epilepsy epileptic examination excitement existence exophthalmic fact faculties feeling fever folie form of insanity frequently functions hallucinations Hippocrates Hospital hysteria hysterical ideas idiocy impulse insanity insanity of double jury lesion less Lord lucid interval Lunacy lunatic madness mania melan melancholia ment mental derangement mental disease mental disorder mind monomania moral morbid motor movements muscles nerve nervous system ness normal observed occur organic pain paralysis patient period person physician pia mater present prisoner radicle recognised regard relation result sane sanity sensation sense sensory sion specific gravity speech symptoms synonym term tion tissue treatment usually
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Página 312 - ... must be considered in the same situation as to responsibility as if the facts with respect to which the delusion exists were real.
Página 311 - ... 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.
Página 481 - A witness is allowed to refresh his memory respecting a fact, by anything written by himself, or under his direction, at the time when the fact occurred, or immediately thereafter, or at any other time when the fact was fresh in his memory, and he knew that the same was correctly stated in the writing.
Página 311 - What are the proper questions to be submitted to the jury, where a person alleged to be afflicted with insane delusion respecting one or more particular subjects or persons is charged with the commission of a crime (murder, for example), and insanity is set up as a defence?" And thirdly: "In what terms ought the question to be left to the jury as to the prisoner's state of mind at the time when the act was committed?
Página 312 - ... his opinion in the terms above stated, because each of those questions involves the determination of the truth of the facts deposed to, which it is for the jury to decide, and the questions are not mere questions upon a matter of science, in which case such evidence is admissible. But where the facts are admitted . or not disputed, and the question becomes substantially one of science only, it may be convenient to allow the question to be put in that general form, though the same cannot be insisted...
Página 338 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Página 308 - The question to be determined is, whether, at the time the act in question was committed, the prisoner had or had not the use of his understanding, so as to know that he was doing a wrong or wicked act.
Página 311 - 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 avenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some supposed public benefit.
Página 298 - ... it is very difficult to define the indivisble line that divides perfect and partial insanity; but it must rest upon circumstances duly to be weighed and considered both by the judge and jury, lest on the one side there be a kind of inhumanity towards the defects of human nature, or on the other side too great an indulgence given to great crimes...
Página 299 - ... it is not every kind of frantic humor or something unaccountable in a man's actions that points him out to be such a madman as is to be exempted from punishment; it must be a man that is totally deprived of his understanding and memory, and doth not know what he is doing, no more than an infant, than a brute, or a wild beast...