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APPENDIX OF CASES. 105 to prevent a man’s ability of earning liis livelihood. If it were not the intention to include it, the rules of the society -should be framed so as expressly to exclude it. Quain, J.—I am also of opinion that insanity is sickness ­ within the society’s rules. The preamble of the rules is wide enough to include it; the words of Rule 13, entitling ­ the member to relief, are “ during any sickness or accident,” except certain excluded cases, insanity not being one. There is nothing to show that temporary illness only was contemplated; and if we look at Rule 32, that seems to show that blindness was intended in general to be included, as it exempts it in particular cases, and blindness ­ is certainly not temporary in most cases. Archibald, J., concurred. Case remitted to the justices accordingly. The following extract from the judgment of Mr. Serjeant Wheeler in the Liveipool County Court in a case of Church v. The Great Southern Sick and Burial Society, is interesting, as showing the medical aspect of the question whether insanity is or is not bodily sickness:—It is necessary ­ in considering the question to bear in mind the natural and essential relations of mind and body. Every manifestation of mind in this life is made by and through its bodily organ, the brain, and the mind is so influenced by the brain that the condition of the former is an invariable index to the constitution and condition of the latter. Hence all causes of temporary or permanent disturbance in the health of those parts of the brain that manifest the mind produce in the same degree the signs of mental derangement, and vice versd all symptoms of mental derangement indicate a proportionate disturbance in the sanitary state of the mind’s bodily organ, the brain. Some years since when it rvas a common circumstance to examine the brain with the aid only of the naked eye, it was not possible in many cases to discover those lesions of brain structure which produce and accompany insanity. But now, by the recent application of the microscope, the minute structure of the brain is revealed, and pathologists can trace distinctly the very seat and nature of those morbid changes which are the real essence of insanity. Hence Schroeder van der Kolk, an eminent German anatomist, says K. 2