Provincial Medical Journal and Retrospect of the Medical Sciences

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Henry Renshaw, 1843
 

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Seite 321 - What are the proper questions to be submitted to the jury, where a person alleged to be afflicted with insane delusion respecting one or more particular subjects or persons, is charged with the commission of a crime (murder, for example), and insanity is set up as a defence?" And, thirdly, "In what terms ought the question to be left to the jury as to the prisoner's state of mind at the time when the act was committed?
Seite 321 - What is the law respecting alleged crimes committed by persons afflicted with insane delusion in respect of one or more particular subjects or persons; as, for instance, where at the time of the commission of the alleged crime the accused knew he was acting contrary to law, but did the act complained of with a view, under the influence of insane delusion, of redressing or revenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some supposed public benefit?" In answer to which question, assuming...
Seite 86 - The symptoms produced are usually so mild as not absolutely to require confinement to bed for more than a few hours ; although, for many reasons, such confinement may often be desirable. On the third or fourth day, a purgative draught should be administered, when the bowels will be found to yield to the medicine, generally without either pain or prolapse of the rectum. The progress after this to healing is rapid, and free from any disagreeable symptoms.
Seite 183 - Hospital, and Dr. Bellingham another in St. Vincent's Hospital. It would appear that this plan of treatment has been too hastily abandoned by the profession, probably from the compression employed being so excessive as to render it quite insupportable to the patient. The least possible pressure, which may be sufficient to close the vessel, should be used, and when this cannot be sustained, it will prove of use to partially compress the artery so as to lessen the impulse of the circulation."* At a...
Seite 223 - In either case, if a party having a competent degree of skill and knowledge, makes an accidental mistake in his treatment of a patient, through which mistake death ensues, he is not thereby guilty of manslaughter; but if, where proper medical assistance can be had, a person totally ignorant of the science of medicine takes on himself to administer a violent and dangerous remedy to one labouring under disease, and death ensues in consequence of that dangerous remedy having been so administered, then...
Seite 280 - Upon examination by the microscope, the concentric layers of this tumour were found composed entirely of epithelium scales closely agglutinated together : but instead of the usual transparent and thin lamina with its central nucleus, they were thickened and hard, and contained granular earthy molecules, which could be removed by immersion in weak muriatic acid. No amorphous earthy deposit existed around or among the scales, but the whole was composed of this epithelium, opaque, of a light brown colour,...
Seite 7 - In many instances, if you can keep your patient quiet for twenty-four hours, you will get either partial or total adhesion of the sides of the bubo, and a speedy cure will be the result ; in other instances this may not be the case, but by the daily use of the injection through one of the punctures, which should be kept open for that purpose, you will succeed in a few days, in almost every case, in effecting a cure.
Seite 188 - Next, the state of the pupils — the iris is placed before that expanded surface of the optic nerve, the retina, as an intelligent curtain to guard it from injury. The vital contrivances by which it acts, and by which its action is directed, are so beautifully perfect that the extent of the opening of the curtain is indicative of the state of the nervous apparatus it is destined to protect, by preventing such an amount of light impinging upon it as would be liable to injure it. In disease of the...
Seite 168 - I fumigate the part by means of the mercurial candle, containing 3jof the hydr. sulphuretum rubrum (olim cinnabar), to two ounces of wax. This fumigation is to be applied night and morning, and, after each, the toe should be gently enveloped in lint or linen, lightly spread with ung. spermaceti. In four or five days the patient will express himself as considerably relieved; the discharge from the ulcer will be found of a healthy, purulent character, and the appearance of the whole part much more...
Seite 321 - ... view, under the influence of some insane delusion, of redressing or avenging some supposed grievance or injury, or of producing some supposed public benefit ? ANSWER. The opinion of the judges was, that notwithstanding the party committed a wrong act, while...

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