Lunacy Law for Medical Men
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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. Every practitioner should provide himself with a copy for his writing table, in order to have a
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The Law of Lunacy *"A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Ashley, M.P., relative to the Case of Nottidge versus Ripley. By T. T. Wingett, M.D., Medical Superintendent of the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum. Dundee. 1849."—2. "The Defects of the Law of Lunacy: a Vindication of the Decision of the Lord Chief Baron, in the Case of Nottidge verses Ripley. By T. T. Wingett, M.D. Dundee. 1849."
Lord Chief Baron's opinion?which he (Dr. Wingett) declares to have " already done much mischief in the judicial proceedings of Scotland" ?yet declares that? " It is, palpably, the grossest absurdity to impeach the judge for the results of this case; he has merely propounded the law?extreme law it may be-?but the law nevertheless. The law only is at fault, and if we insist upon attacking the law...
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