Supplement to the Croonian lectures : Medical testimony and evidence in cases of lunacy.

  • Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Supplement to the Croonian lectures : Medical testimony and evidence in cases of lunacy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    higher moral authority with the medical witness than the rights of the public to protection against murder. Page 30 (C). ‘ In respect to the actual changes which may be worked in the human being under insanity, it must be remembered by those who engage in this arduous inquiry, that they may be contem- plated as concerning our immaterial phase of being, in a light much more exclusive of that afforded by physiological consideration than we are accustomed to assume. That there should be a disease of the mind in the abstract, that such disease should work changes in us, viewed in this light, analogous to the physical changes of our bodily organs, is neither unnatural nor inconceivable. A parasitical growth—if, for want of a better, I may borrow this term from physical speculation—may take place under such disease, itself possessing vital functions and ener-
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