Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs: Consisting of Original Treatises and Reproductions, in English, of Books and Monographs Selected from the Latest Literature of Foreign Countries, with All Illustrations, Etc. V. 1-12; [Jan. 1889-Dec. 1891].

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Página 630 - Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? 57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?
Página 587 - That there were such creatures as witches, he made no doubt at all. For, first, the Scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Página 582 - It is the prolonged departure, without an adequate external cause, from the state of feeling and modes of thinking usual to the individual when in health, that is the true feature of disorder in mind...
Página 587 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed Word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Página 573 - But he that would not deceive himself ought to build his hypothesis on matter of fact, and make it out by sensible experience, and not presume on matter of fact because of his hypothesis...
Página 662 - The good that I would, I do not; the evil that I would not, that I do,
Página 605 - These were the principles which ought to govern the decision of juries in such cases, 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.
Página 701 - But however calm and rational the patient may appear to be during the lucid intervals, as they are called, and while enjoying the quietude of domestic society, or the limited range of a wellregulated asylum, it must never be supposed that he is in as perfect possession of his senses as if he had never been ill.
Página 649 - Dissertation on Nature of Virtue," subjoined to " Analogy of Religion." Case of an Impulse to Steal. " There are persons who are moral to the highest degree as to certain duties, but who nevertheless live under the influence of some one vice. In one instance a woman was exemplary in her obedience to every command of the moral law, except one — she could not refrain from stealing.
Página 550 - That before a plea of insanity should be allowed, undoubted evidence ought to be adduced that the accused was of diseased mind, and that at the time he committed the act he was not conscious of right or wrong.

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