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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 sick 
ness within the society’s rules. The preamble of the rules 
is wide enough to include it; the words of Rule 13, en 
titling 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 blind 
ness 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 ne 
cessary 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 
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