There is a special form of mental disease met with in India usually classed as Toxic Insanity which seems to have a direct relation to the excessive use of hemp drugs in any form. It has a definite train of sj'mptoms of a fairly uniform character; there is in the large majority of those affected no hereditary history of insanity, nervous disease or tubercle; the sufferers are men of every age (...

American Immigration, Fertility, and Race Suicide at the Turn of the Century Immigration has provoked nativist hostility in the United States since the midnineteenth century. At the turn of the century, representatives of long-established American families blamed a multitude of social problems-including crime, poverty, insanity, and political corruption-on newcomers to their shores. Critics of ...

An Introduction to the study of Medical Psychology, edited upon the plan of Tennemann's "Manual of the History of Philosophy," is much wanted; we therefore hailed with satisfaction the announcement of Mr. Noble's work, and were induced to regard it as a good sign, indicating the progress of a science which admits of being taught in an elementary form?but we have been disappointed; the book of M...

in expecting much from their joint labours. The work before us is divided into two portions, the first embracing the history, classification, statistics of insanity, is from the pen of Dr. Tuke; the remaining chapters, which treat of the diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of mental disorders, are by Dr. Bucknill. Our space will not allow us to do more than briefly refer to some of the more imp...

This study compares Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) scores, DSM-III-R diagnoses, and select behavioral indices between hospitalized insanity acquittees (N = 18) and hospitalized insanity acquittees who successfully malingered (N = 18). The malingerers were significantly more likely to have a history of murder or rape, carry a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder or sexual sadism, ...

In comparing genius to a pearl Lombroso sutmarised his beliefthat the cause of genius was a constitutional defect, a defect that commonly showed itselfas insanity in the genius or his family.' This "insanity" theory was supported by several later studies,24 but other studies supported an alternative theory (the "stud" theory) that genius represented the highest capacities ofthe race-a culminati...

In the eighteenth century, insanity was widely explained within the Lockean philosophical framework of enlightened rationality: delusions or illusions, basically erroneous thinking, led human reason into the wrong. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, after the French Revolution and in the midst of the transformations which the industrial revolution brought about, new theories of insanit...

men on the subject of insanity, that barristers are in the habit of making on occasions when they defend prisoners charged with criminal offences, could ever dissipate the dense obscurity which surrounds these subjects in the public mind. The legal profession generally, and especially the judges, have so little practical acquaintance with insanity, that their minds are absolutely unable to comp...

because of causality, continuity, and the expiration of any ruling related to the subject and the case study has led to a rests inferred; scope of madness as one of the most important issues in law and jurisprudence has been selected as purpose the paper.in this study, besides that definitions of literal and definition by example inferred from the narratives and social judgments that most defin...