A Medico Legal Examination Of The Case Of Charles B Huntington

Author : Chandler Robbins Gilman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259549857
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book A Medico-Legal Examination of the Case of Charles B. Huntington written by Chandler Robbins Gilman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Medico-Legal Examination of the Case of Charles B. Huntington: With Remarks on Moral Insanity and on the Legal Test of Sanity IT has been suggested to me, that advantage might be taken of the interest excited by the case of Huntington the forger, to disseminate those doctrines on the subject of insanity which, although quite familiar to those who have paid special attention to the study of the disease, still make their way with great difficulty in the legal profession, and are to the general public almost unknown. In assuming this task, it is proper to state distinctly, that I make no pretension to originality. I cannot hope to extend the scientific knowl edge of the subject. The expert in legal medicine will find nothing in these pages with which his previous studies have not made him perfectly familiar. My object is not to instruct him, but to disseminate among the people those facts and doctrines which have long formed a part of his knowledge - facts and doctrines which the labors of Pinel and Esquirol in France, Prichard and Winslow in England, and Woodward and Ray in our own country, have established - as we, their disciples believe - beyond the possibility of successful cavil. It is not at all my desire or design to defend the medical opinions given in the case. If they were honestly and intelligently given, they need no defense if not, none will avail. I shall give a sketch of the case in its medico-legal aspect, but only as introductory to the remarks on the existence of moral insanity, and the legal test of sanity, to which I desire specially to attract the attention of my reader. Charles B. Huntington was born in Geneva, New York, in 182-1, of respectable, though not wealthy, parents. His ancestors, both direct and collateral, had generally enjoyed good health, and several of them attained to very advanced age. A paternal aunt became insane at the age of seventy, and remained so till her death a paternal uncle is at present insane. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.