The medical jurisprudence of insanity /

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Author / Creator:Browne, J. H. Balfour (John Hutton Balfour), 1845-1921, author.
Edition:Second edition, with references to the Scotch and American decisions.
Imprint:San Francisco : Sumner Whitney & Co., 1875.
[San Francisco, California?] : John Wallace, Law Printer,
[San Francisco, California?] : Painter & Co., Stereotyper,
©1875
Description:1 online resource (713 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Insanity (Law) -- Great Britain.
Insanity (Law) -- United States.
Insanity (Law)
Great Britain.
United States.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11058535
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource (LLMC, HeinOnline, viewed June 12, 2017).
Other form:Print version: Browne, J. H. Balfour (John Hutton Balfour), 1845-1921. Medical jurisprudence of insanity. 2nd ed. San Francisco : S. Whitney, 1875
Microform version: Browne, J. H. Balfour (John Hutton Balfour), 1845-1921. Medical jurisprudence of insanity. 2nd ed., with references to the Scotch and American decisions. San Francisco : S. Whitney, 1875
Table of Contents:
  • Insanity, capacity, and responsibility
  • On the causes of insanity
  • Mental soundness and classifications of insanity
  • Amentia
  • The legal relations of amentia
  • Mania
  • The legal relations of mania
  • Moral mania
  • Partial moral mania, or moral mania
  • The legal relations of moral mania
  • Melancholia
  • Dementia
  • The legal relations of dementia
  • Epilepsies and their legal relations
  • Somnambulism
  • Drunkenness
  • The legal relations of drunkenness
  • Aphasia and aphonia
  • Delirium
  • Lucid intervals
  • Feigned insanity
  • Concealed insanity
  • The admissibility of the evidence of the insane
  • On the examination of persons supposed to be of unsound mind
  • Medical exports
  • Proof of insanity
  • Addenda.