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2. On the Definition of Insanity Considered Medico-Legally. By James Rorie, M.D. Edin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Part III.—Quarterly Report on the Progress of Psychological Medicine
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1866 

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References

‘Alison's Principles of the Criminal Law of Scotland,’ 1832.Google Scholar

This case was folly reported by Dr. Tellowlees in the ‘Journal of Mental Science’ for April, 1868.Google Scholar

‘Edinburgh Medical Journal,’ March, 1863.Google Scholar

See an article by Dr. Maudsley on “Homicidal Insanity,” in No. 47 of the ‘Journal of Mental Science,’ October, 1863.Google Scholar

Without a careful personal inspection of the Asylum at Earlswood, it would be difficult for any one who knew the idiot children only as they are in the wards of the County Lunatic Asylums to realise what the system of educational treatment, there so skilfully elaborated by Br. Langdon Bowne, can accomplish. Nothing can be more painful than the sight of these unfortunate children, listless and unoccupied, in the wards of a lunatic asylum; nothing, I think, can afford more gratification to any one interested in the advancement of civilisation than a visit to the idiot children at Earlswood. There is no similar institution-similar, I mean, in its successful treatment of the idiot-in any part of the continent of Europe. When the movement now begun by the Commissioners in Lunacy to provide proper treatment for the idiot paupers throughout England tomes to be carried out, Dr. Bourne's work at Earlswood will assuredly be the standard for us to copy from.-C. L. R.Google Scholar

See ‘Journal of Mental Science,’ April, 1864. “Stray Notes on Foreign Asylums,” by Dr. W. C. Mackintosh.Google Scholar

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