MEDICAL WITNESSES IN LUNACY TRIALS.

Lunacy Law for Medical Men

Dr. Mercier's name is so well known in lunacy that we felt confident that a book dealing with the Lunacy Law from his hands would be valuable. This book, though small, is yet so excellent and systematic in its arrangement, and so lucid in the setting forth of its subject, that no medical man using it as his guide need doubt his ability to understand the Lunacy Act of 1890 so far as is necessary...

Consultation of Medical Witnesses

The scandal of medical witnesses being retained on opposite sides in courts of law and crivin" what looks like partisan evidence is often the subject of remark and sneer, and it is mooted that if medical men cited as witnesses by opposing litigants were to meet in consultation before thecase came into court and were to arrive at some sort of agreement regarding the fact and the opinion founded ...

Lunacy Reform

^JNDER this title there has recently been issued the report of the proceedings at a conference convened by Sir Frederick Willis, Chairman of the Board of Control, at which there were present Commissioners of the Board, Chairmen of Visiting Committees and Medical Superintendents of County and Borough Mental Hospitals. They met to consider " in what directions lunacy administration and the treatm...

The Trade in Lunacy

Lunacy in India

warm welcome not only from students and medical men but also from the legal community and all those who have to deal with the problems of Insanity in India. The conditions that prevail in India are so different from those in European countries that students of mental diseases in this country are fortunate in having a text-book specially written for their needs. The medico-legal chapters will be...