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![CHAPTER VI. UNSOUNDNESS OF MIND. PAGE Preliminary Observations.—The Mind a Compound of many distinct Faculties. — Choice of Terms. — Unsoundness of ]\Iind.—Non Compos Mentis.—Subdi%-isions. — Author's Arrangement. — Spectral Illusions.— Dreaming,—Somnanibiilism.—Legal Relations of Somnambulism.—Deli- rium.— behrium Tremens. — Drunkenness. — Their Legal Relations.— AME^-TIA.—Idiocy. — Cretenism.—Imbecility.—Their Legal Relations.— Dementia.—Varieties.—Legal Relations.—Mania.—Intellectual (gene- ral, and partial). — Moral (general, and partial). — Legal Relations of Mania.—Mania with Lucid Intervals.—Legal Relations.—Of some of the more important Characters of Mental Unsoundness.—Tests.—Plea of In- sanity in Criminal Cases.—Feigned Unsoundness of Mind.—Idiocy, Im- becility, Dementia. i\Iania (general, and partial).—Moral Insanity.—Con- cealed Insanity.—Rules for the Examination of Persons supposed to be of Unsound Mind. ...... 206 CHAPTER VII. PERSONS FOUND DEAD. Relation of the Body to surrounding Objects.—The place in which the Bodv is found.—Position of the Body.—Examination of the Spot on which the Body is found—of the SoU or Surface on which it lies.—Position of sur- rounding Objects. — The Clothes. — Examination of the Body.—Post- mortem Inspection. ...... 274 REAL AND APPARENT DEATH. Questions as to the Reality of Death of rare occurrence in this Country. —MTiat Condition of the System has been most frequently mistaken for Real Death. — SjTicope.—Voluntary Syncope. — Case of Colonel Tomtis- hend.—Asphyxia.—Signs of Death.—Cessation of Respiration.—Of the Circulation.—Fades Hippocratica.—State of the Eye.—Of the Skin.—In- sensibility, Immobility and loss of the Intellectual Faculties.—Loss of Bluscular Irritability.—Extinction of Animal Heat, Cadaveric Rigidity, and Putrefaction, considered not only as Signs of Death, but as means of deter- mining how long Life has been extinct.—Phenomena of Putiefaction in Air and Water. . . . . . .280 SUDDEN DEATH. Proximate Causes of Sudden Death.—Death commencing in the Heart. Syncope.—In the Head.—Asthenia.—In the Lungs.—Apncea (Asphyxia). —Causes of.—Symptoms.—Post-mortem Appearances,—Theory of.—Post- mortem Appearances in the Three Modes of Death contrasted.—Frequency of cases of Sudden Death.—Nmnber of Cases due to each Cause. . 300 SURVIVORSHIP. Probabilities afforded by Age and Sex irrespective of the mode of Death. —Mother and Child.—Probabilities established by the Mode of Death.— Apnoea.—Drowning.—Suffocation.—Cold.—Heat.—Hunger and Thirst.— Other Modes of Death. . . . . . .308](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21055890_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
