Abstract

Insanity.“forLoctober, which men are hanged, means.” applied crimes,but of which they might easily It is hard for the world to believe to those homicides who havebeen cured by physical doctrines, particularlyif great and revoltingwhether in a paroxysm of epileptic mania or laboring ence of a delusion which controlled, more or less, operations. disposition. depressions. DiseaseHepatic ofunder the influall the mental the suicidal byalmost alwaysis also frequentlythe cause of great mental depression. Some German writers lay great stress on the connection of insanity, particulrly suicidal insanity, with derangement of the cutaneous secretions; but as we propose to recur to these sympathies again, in treating organs,influence glanceon the at themof diseaseof individualat present.LEGAL RESPONSIBILITYIII.OF EPILEPTICS.#{149}Notwithstanding in this country,a justthe attention given to the jurisprudence of insanity but little has as yet been contributed towards formingappreciation of the legal disabilities consequent upon epilepsy. This seems remarkable, and difficult to account for, when we consider the large number of epileptics admitted into the various asylums for the insane, but more especially when we reflect that, apart from the manifestinsanity sooner or later induced, the disease itself is of so grave a nature as from its inception to modif!y the whole character, social,