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Page 468 - No person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery shall be allowed to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending any patient in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician, or to do any act for him as a surgeon: Prnrldcd, however. Page 618 - These are the cases which frequently mock the wisdom of the wisest in judicial trials ; because such persons often reason with a subtlety which puts in the shade the ordinary conceptions of mankind ; their conclusions are just, and frequently profound ; but the premises from which they reason, when within the range of the malady, are uniformly false ; — not false from any defect of knowledge or judgment, because a delusive image, the inseparable companion of real insanity, is thrust upon the subjugated... Page 619 - What is the law respecting alleged crimes committed by persons afflicted with insane delusion in respect of one or more particular subjects or persons : as, for instance, where at the time of the commission of the alleged crime the accused knew he was acting contrary to law, but did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some supposed public benefit ?" In answer to which question, assuming... Page 616 - Some persons that have a competent use of reason in respect of some subjects, are yet under a particular dementia in respect of some particular discourses, subjects, or applications, or else it is partial in respect of degrees; and this is the condition of very many, especially melancholy persons, who for the most nart discover their defect in excessive fears and grief, and yet are not wholly destitute of the use of reason... Page 484 - May, 1860, the following resolutions were adopted : 1. The President of this Convention shall, on the first day of May, 1869, issue a notice requesting the several incorporated State Medical Societies, the incorporated Medical Colleges, the incorporated Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and the incorporated Colleges of Pharmacy • throughout the United States, to elect a number of delegates, not exceeding three, to attend a general Convention, to be held at Washington on the first Wednesday in... Page 616 - There is a partial insanity of mind, and a total insanity. The former is either in respect to things, quoad hoc vel illud insanire. Some persons, that have a competent use of reason in respect of some subjects, are yet under a particular dementia in respect of some particular discourses, subjects, or applications : or else it is partial in respect of degrees... Page 823 - When six or more of the jurors appear, they must be sworn by the coroner to inquire who the person was, and when, where and by what means he came to his death or was wounded, as the case may be, and into the circumstances attending the death or wounding, and to render a true verdict thereon, according to the evidence offered to them, or arising from the inspection of the body. Page 619 - In answer to which question, assuming that your lordships' inquiries are confined to those persons who labour under such partial delusions only, and are not in other respects insane, we are of opinion, that, notwithstanding the party accused did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some public benefit, he is nevertheless punishable, according to the nature of the crime committed, if... Page 661 - ... no person shall receive the appointment of assistant surgeon in the Army of the United States unless he shall have been examined and approved by an army medical board, to consist of not less than three surgeons or assistant surgeons, who shall be designated for that purpose by the Secretary of War... |