Clinical facts and reflections ; also, remarks on the impunity of murder in some cases of presumed insanity / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Thomas Mayo
Date:
1847
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Credit: Clinical facts and reflections ; also, remarks on the impunity of murder in some cases of presumed insanity / by Thomas Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    same kind. In the first point of view in wlhcli I have placed this subject, we deal with facts in relation to their common points; but in this second point of view we have to deal with them in relation to their discre- pancies. The first operation is statistical in its natm-e, and would lead to an nndiscriminating practice. The latter operation unties the facts thus accumulated, and subjects them to an ordeal which is requisite to their exact use. I make the above remarks, in order to obtain its just place and importance for an enumeration of cases, either single or in groups. Thus individualised, they possess perhaps a less philosophical air than in their cumulative state. But their utihty is obvious. Indeed, the practical character of the Enghsh mind has largely enriched our medical literatm’e with cases contemplated in this point of view. We abound in valuable mono- graphs. I am desirous of adding to their quantity, whatever may be the quality of my contributions. But in reference to the publication of cases, there is another consideration, to which I would gladly call attention; and I shall not have altogether failed, if I shall stimulate other members of the profession to take it up themselves. If a discovery be made by a physician in pathology or therapeutics, he records it by publication. If he has lectured ably on these subjects, he publishes his coiu’se of lectm’es. In the first case, the practice laid down will be particular, but it will relate only to the unme- diate department of medicine in which tlie discovery is made; in the latter case the practice will be studiously
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