London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 461850 |
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Page 232 - Can a medical man conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime? or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that he was acting contrary to law, or whether he was labouring under any and what delusion at the time...
Page 192 - It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak.
Page 219 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 219 - And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand...
Page 231 - Degree, together with proofs of being twenty-one • years of age, and of having been occupied at least four years in the acquirement of professional knowledge. III. Graduates in Medicine of any legally constituted College or University requiring residence to obtain Degrees, will be admitted...
Page 38 - ... femur (Fig. 40), the longitudinal section of the enlarged wall appears composed of two or more layers of compact tissue, with a widely cancellous tissue between them: and these layers may sometimes be traced into continuity with those forming the healthy portion of the wall. Usually, the separated layers are carried outwards, and the bone appears outwardly enlarged ; but sometimes the inner layers of the wall are pressed inwards and encroach upon the medullary tissue. In the first periods of...
Page 85 - So limited a view of the convertibility of nervous force, is such an one as the older electricians would have held, had they maintained that the only possible manifestations of electricity were the attractions and repulsions of light bodies, or that the electric force could never be made to appear in the form of magnetism, of chemical action, or of heat.
Page 50 - We have also houses of deceits of the senses, where we represent all manner of feats of juggling, false apparitions, impostures and illusions, and their fallacies. And surely you will easily believe that we, that have so many things truly natural which induce admiration, could in a world of particulars deceive the senses if we would disguise those things, and labour to make them seem more miraculous.
Page 144 - They ought to have proof of a formed disease of the mind — a disease existing before the act was committed, and which made the person accused incapable of knowing, at the time he did the act, that it was a wrong act for him to do.
Page 418 - The material of which this filter is made is of little importance. One of the best, according to Dr Smith, as far as clearing the water is concerned, being of steel filings,— oxide of iron, oxide of manganese, and powdered bricks all answering equally well. This shows that the separation of the organic matter is due to some peculiar attraction of the surfaces of the porous mass presented to the fluid. — This paper was a continuation of Dr Smith's Report, published last year ; and he purposes...