A rational materialistic definition of insanity and imbecility : with the medical jurisprudence of legal criminality, founded upon physiological, psychological and clinical observations . ; f^ Fig. 4. Par oc fis. 1 \ Temp. Fis Fis. Sjk MEDICO-LEGAL RELATIONS OF EPILESY. A Study of the Hayvern-Salter Homicide. BY JAMES G. KIERNAN, , CHICAGO, ILL. The position which the law holds respecting epilepsy is, like thatwhich it holds on any individual psychosis, a most doubtful are, of all classes of the insane, those to whom the absurdright and wrong
A rational materialistic definition of insanity and imbecility : with the medical jurisprudence of legal criminality, founded upon physiological, psychological and clinical observations . ; f^ Fig. 4. Par oc fis. 1 \ Temp. Fis Fis. Sjk MEDICO-LEGAL RELATIONS OF EPILESY. A Study of the Hayvern-Salter Homicide. BY JAMES G. KIERNAN, , CHICAGO, ILL. The position which the law holds respecting epilepsy is, like thatwhich it holds on any individual psychosis, a most doubtful are, of all classes of the insane, those to whom the absurdright and wrong dictum of the law does most injustice. An epilepticmay perform an act apparently premeditated, and may appear to knowthe exact legal consequences of his act, and yet the act be the directresult of the disease. Even in some of the lower mental states there-is an apparent premeditation that to the law lords would, from theira priori ideas and dicta, appear inconsistent with the real mental con-dition. In a case reported by Spitzka*, a patient, who was absolutelyunconscious, and was held by three persons, his wife holding hishead to prevent biting at the others, was seen to put out his tongue,,like a tentacle, to feel where a portion of hi
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