SERJEANT WHEELER ON INSANITY AND FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

Serjeant Musgrave's disease.

The present title takes a liberty with the title of playwright John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, but not with the text. Toward the end of the play, Serjeant Musgrave exclaims "There used to be my duty: now there's a disease". So what is the serjeant's "disease"? The play, subtitled "an unhistoric parable" is a commentary on an unspecified late 19th century war in a British protectorate as...

Wheeler Graphs: Variations on a Theme by Burrows and Wheeler

The famous Burrows-Wheeler Transform was originally defined for single strings but variations have been developed for sets of strings, labelled trees, de Bruijn graphs, alignments, etc. In this talk we propose a unifying view that includes many of these variations and that we hope will simplify the search for more. Somewhat surprisingly we get our unifying view by considering the Nondeterminist...

On Hallucinations in Insanity

The hallucinations and illusions of melancholic monomania (lypemania of Esquirol) are characterized by fixity, intensity, and tenacity, as well as by expression, which distinguish them from those observed in acute delirium and mania. The integrity of the reasoning power, excepting always some obscured portions, "permits lis in most cases to analyse the phenomena and follow their modifications w...

Notes on Feigned Insanity

" Edgar. While I may scape, I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape, That ever penury, in contempt of man, Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth; Blanket my loins ; elf all my hair in knots ; And with presented nakedness out-face The winds and persecutions of the sky. The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars, who, with ...

On Criminal Insanity