...the prolonged departure, without any adequate external ' cause, from the state of feeling and mode of thinking usual to • the individual when in health, that is the true feature of dis' order in mind; and the degree in which this disorder ought to • be held as constituting insanity,...

...probably that insisted upon by Dr. Andrew Combe, and it applies precisely to this case of Blomiley : — "It is the prolonged departure, without an adequate...feeling and modes of thinking usual to the individual while in health, that is the true feature of disorder in mind." (Observations on Mental Derangement,...

...probably that insisted upon by Dr. Andrew Combe, and it applies precisely to this case of Blomiley : — "It is the prolonged departure, without an adequate...feeling and modes of thinking usual to the individual while in health, that is the true feature of disorder in mind." (Observations on Mental Derangement,...

...quoted with approbation and applied to the cose before him, the opinion of Dr. Ray (p. 55, Shelford): 'It is the prolonged departure, without an adequate...when in health, that is the true feature of disorder of mind.' Again. Lord Lyndhurst, in one of his judgments, says : ' In monomania the mind is unsound...

...Fust laid down (in the very words of Dr Combe ; On Mental Derangement, p. 219,) the principle, that "it is the prolonged departure, without an adequate...that is the true feature of disorder in mind ;" and that of maniacs, the law lays down the test of knowledge of right and wrong. "This," says he, " is...

...Fust laid down (in the very words of Dr Combe ; On Mental Derangement, p. 219,) the principle, that " it is the prolonged departure, without an adequate...that is the true feature of disorder in mind ;" and that of maniacs, the law lays down the test of knowledge of right and wrong. "This," says he, "is as...

...external cause, from the state of feeling ml modes of thinking usual to the individual when in healih, that is the true feature of disorder in mind; and the degree at which thidisorder ought to be held as constituting insanity, is a question of another kind, on which we can...

...distinguished is with them a natural quality, and not the product of disease ; and, from the very unlikencss of their manifestations to the modes of feeling and...that is the true feature of disorder in mind; and the 1 London Quarterly Review, XLJI. 355. degree at which this disorder ought to be held as constituting...

...still it is not mere strangeness of conduct or singularity of mind which constitutes its presence. // is the prolonged departure, without an adequate external...that is the true feature of disorder in mind; and the 1 London Quarterly Review, X 1 , 1 1, 355. degree at which this disorder ought to be held as constituting...

...contested on the ground of insanity, but defended on the plea of eccentricity, Sir HJ Fust said, — "It is the prolonged departure, without an adequate...health, that is the true feature of disorder in mind." See also the case of Waring v. Waring (Prerog. Court, Feb. 1847.) The case of Yyksias v. Dyke (Prerog....