The law of friendly societies, and industrial and provident societies, with the acts, observations thereon, forms of rules etc., reports of leading cases at length, and a copious index

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Title:: The law of friendly societies, and industrial and provident societies, with the acts, observations thereon, forms of rules etc., reports of leading cases at length, and a copious index

Place of publication:: with the acts, observations thereon, forms of rules etc., reports of leading cases at length, and a copious index$gTenth edition, revised and enlarged

Publisher:: Shaw and Sons

Year of publication:: 1881

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196 APPENDIX OF CASES. that “ lie does not remember to have performed the dissec tion of one lunatic during the last twenty-five years with out finding a satisfactory explanation of the phenomena observed during life,” If we glance back to the year 1831, when Dr. Andrew Combe published his work on mental derangement, we find this principle laid down:—“ Every derangement of function is accompanied by disorder either in the structure or mode of action of the organ which per forms it, and without the removal or cure of which the function cannot be restored to its healthy state.” The same author observes:—“ Sight is never impaired or hearing de stroyed unless the organs which execute these functions are diseased, and in like manner thought and feeling are never deranged unless the cerebral organs by which they are manifested have undergone some morbid change.” The latest expression of authoritative opinion upon this subject is by Dr. Maudesly, in his Gulstonian lectures, “on the relations between body and mind,” delivered this year at the Royal College of Physicians. That gentleman thus speaks:—-“I have given a survey of the physiology of our mental functions, showing how indissolubly they are bound up with the bodily functions, and how barren must of necessity bo a study of mind apart from body. I now propose to show that the phenomena of mental derangement bear out fully this view of its nature, that we have not to deal with disease of a metaphysical entity which the method of inductive inquiry cannot reach, or the resources of medical art touch, but with disease of the nervous system disclosing itself by physical and mental symptoms.” It seems then that the question in this case is concluded both by reasoning and medical testimony, and it appears to me that insanity is just as much bodily disease as paralysis and apoplexy, which are notoriously affections of the brain, and therefore admitted to be bodily disease. It has been suggested, I see, in the Lancet that in cases of insanity the right of relief out of the sick fund ought, on account of the usually chronic character of the malady, to be made subject to a special limit in point of time. * That matter I leave to others to whom its decision properly belongs. All that remains for me to do is to give effect to the conclusion to which, after much consideration, I have come, and to direct that a verdict be entered for the plaintiff for the sum claimed” («). (a) I am indebted to my friend Mr. W. U. Whitney, surgeon, for kindly revising the report of this decision, which originally- appeared in the Liverpool Mercury for 12th July, 1870.

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