A Case of Monomania
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A man may receive a blow upon liis lieart or liis imagination as lie may receive an injury to liis brain, wliicli till, if ever, tlie effects have passed away, shall determine an eccentricity of conduct in all after-life, for which he is wholly, or in a considerable degree, irresponsible. Such a man is pro tanto to be pitied, and, if needful, shut up. If his eccentricity be of dangerous tendency, society is to be protected from him; he is to be protected from himself. An accidental occurrence impressing its image upon a susceptible imagination may spread a blight over the mind and cripple its capacities, so that on some one subject, directly?on others bearing affinity to it, implicatively?its views shall be far otherwise than sane. Let it be proved that in any man's
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