INSANITY FROM BRIGHT??S DISEASE

Insanity from Chloroform

During a discussion in the early part of the present session, at the Westminster Medical Society, when a paper was read by Professor Murphy, advocating the use of chloroform in midwifery, Dr. Webster, according to the reports published in the medical journals, mentioned three cases of insanity supervening after the employment of the above powerful agent during childbirth; to which he afterwards...

Essentials of Nervous Disease and Insanity

This book is one of Saunder's Question-Compends. It is not, however, written in question form. Its intention, as stated in the preface, is not that it should take the place of larger works, but that it should be used somewhat as a prime]1 for advanced students. It consists of 190 pages and 53 illustrations, and it may be said at once that it is eminently suitable for the purpose for which it ha...

Insanity

Insanity plea: predicting not guilty by reason of insanity adjudications.

Using 35 variables and discriminant analysis procedures, it was found that, of 133 male defendants entering the insanity plea in Colorado, 87 percent were classified correctly into the disposition groups "adjudicated insane" and "convicted." Most positively related to an insanity adjudication were a psychiatric evaluation of insanity and a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Negatively related to the i...

Crime and Insanity