PHTHISICAL INSANITY

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...

Sudden Death from Asphyxia in a Phthisical Boy

constant cough and pain in the chest had been present for five months. On my first visit to the wards after the boy's admission, I found him sitting up in bed, breathing rather rapidly, but not seeming much distressed, and in the act of expectorating purulent sputum into a receptacle already nearly full. On physical examination there appeared to be no flattening or falling in of the chest on ei...

The Proofs of the Existence of a Phthisical Contagion

The contagiousness of tuberculosis is a subject of peculiar interest to the medical profession of this district, inas-much as it was here that our late colleague, Dr. Wm. Budd, startled the profession by announcing his belief that phthisis would be found to be contagious. The grounds of his belief were as follows:?* (a) Considerations based on the pathology of phthisis, as showing it to consist...

Crime and Insanity