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A treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity

Ray, Isaac, 1807-1881.

Year: c1962.

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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Frontmatter

Editor's Introduction by Winfred Overholser

A Note on the Text

A TREATISE ON THE MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE OF INSANITY

PREFACE

PRELIMINARY VIEWS

I MENTAL DISEASE IN GENERAL

II IDIOCY

III IMBECILITY

IV LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF MENTAL DEFICIENCY

V PATHOLOGY AND SYMPTOMS OF MANIA

VI INTELLECTUAL MANIA

VII MORAL MANIA

VIII LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF MANIA

IX DEMENTIA

X LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF DEMENTIA

XI FEBRILE DELIRIUM

XII LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF DELIRIUM

XIII DURATION AND CURABILITY OF MADNESS

XIV LUCID INTERVALS

XV SIMULATED INSANITY

XVI CONCEALED INSANITY

XVII SUICIDE

XVIII LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF SUICIDE

XIX SOMNAMBULISM

XX LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF SOMNAMBULISM

XXI SIMULATED SOMNAMBULISM

XXII EFFECT OF INSANITY ON EVIDENCE

XXIII DRUNKENNESS

XXIV LEGAL CONSEQUENCES OF DRUNKENNESS

XXV INTERDICTION

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

LIST OF CASES

INDEX

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Title:

A treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity : by Isaac Ray ; edited by Winfred Overholser.

Author:

Ray, Isaac, 1807-1881

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A treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity : by Isaac Ray ; edited by Winfred Overholser.
Ray, Isaac, 1807-1881
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1962.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07545

Subject Headings:

• Insanity (Law) -- United States

Notes:

• Reprint; originally published: Boston : Little and Brown, 1838.
• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required

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