Supplement to the Croonian lectures : medical testimony and evidence in cases of lunacy / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Thomas Mayo
Date:
1856
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Credit: Supplement to the Croonian lectures : medical testimony and evidence in cases of lunacy / by Thomas Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Homicidal orgasm, I propose to resume in the same point of view.* There is another question, which has, I believe, miscliievously influenced the answer to the above in many medical witnesses, but which I shall leave untouched, except so far as I may be obliged to advert to it, since it belongs to the judicial phase of the subject alone, viz., what will be the appropriate punishment of the crime, supposing irresponsibility is negatived by the medical witnesses in a given case? Now, in my endeavours to throw light on this subject, I wish to be understood as making an excellent article in the Medical Jurisprudence by Dr. Alfred Taylor, which dwells fully on the same subject, my book of reference, as supplying data for enquiry, and assisting their application. Valuable as that part of his great work unques- tionably is, its eminently suggestive character not only leaves room but makes room for further tentamina. It is, indeed, highly probable that, whatever additions may at present be made to our acquaintance with the whole subject, in * Appendix, B.
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