A Lunacy Chart: being a Synopsis of the Lunacy Acts, and having special reference to the management and care of persons of Unsound Mind.
Surely lunacy does not show such self-restraint; nor does lunacy awaken any such feelings of awe as followed a prolonged scrutiny of her set but determined features.
Now let us hear Severne; he knows all the defenses of gambling lunacy has discovered.
You are all going to gratify your mania--lunacy is contagious.
The sentries knew this was a phase in our lunacy and saw nothing suspicious in it.
But he did, and whether he thought I had added kleptomania to my other forms of lunacyor not, he had kept the whole matter strictly secret.
Then he endeavoured to get a commission of lunacy against Mrs. Nisbett, but the Lord Chancellor, on receiving the report of the medical men who examined her, dismissed the petition, with costs.
A letter from the office of the Commissioners in Lunacy was read, in which they stated they were satisfied that when the Rev.
He took out a commission of lunacyagainst Philip, who was found to be a lunatic and incapable of managing his own affairs.
The war was looked upon as essentially a defensive war: many doubted whether Bonaparte could be successfully opposed: almost all would have treated it as lunacy to say that he could be conquered.
Yet lunacy is not curable by force, by jails, dungeons, and cages; only by the medicine of wise men and good men.
One day we must see that a jail, as it is now conducted, is no more likely to cure a crime than a lunacy or a fever!
Now lunacy is a disease, to be prescribed for as fever or rheumatism; when we find an incurable case we do not kill the man, nor chain him, nor count him a devil.
Some of them are insane, and the lunacy authority should attend to them.
Others, through indulging their temper, are in the way of becoming insane; but their mental unsoundness is not so marked as to cause the lunacy specialists to certify them.
I'm not bound to believe that any evil or lunacy will be overcome; it seems to me at least an open question.
All these provisions of law are still in force, except that the board to fix prices has been changed by the addition of the State Prison Commission and Lunacy Commission, and by omitting the President of the State Board of Charities.
This inaugurated substantially the same system, with reference to the expenditures of other charitable institutions, that was then used by the Lunacy Commission with reference to the hospitals.
In 1890 he was made a member of the "Board for the Establishment of State Insane Asylum Districts and other purposes," together with the State Commission in Lunacy and President of the State Board of Charities.
We are engaged at this very moment in getting a commission of lunacy on her husband.
But again, what fanatical lunacy or class-atrocity of Christendom was ever based on anything else?
So long since as 1844, the then Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy advised the institution of distinct asylums for the more chronic cases of insanity (Report, p.
There is one subsidiary recommendation made by the Lunacy Commissioners, which we cannot so freely subscribe to, that, viz.
The existence of the lunacy is thus disguised under the term of 'nervousness,' and the patients robbed of the protection which the law has rightly intended, and yet signally failed to afford.
The Commissioners in Lunacy have as a rule, and in the absence of particular information, calculated that they are about equal in number to those resident in workhouses.
Nevertheless, the lunacy commissioners who visited the asylum reported that the place was unhealthy and unfit for lunatics, and recommended, or rather demanded that a new asylum should be built in a more healthy situation.
The Lunacy Commissioners, however, made a strong report to the Secretary of State on the subject, who sent down an order to the council to build an asylum.
Yes, sir; he has betrayed unmistakable evidences of lunacy of late.
Oh," he said, shaking his head, "I fear your charge of lunacy will not stand upon such ground as that.
I tried to keep her and the remembrance of her in my mind above the gold, but it was like a lunacy upon me.
At the best it's a sort of lunacy that takes a man away from his fellows, especially an Irishman.
A Study of the Remarkable Increase of Lunacy in Rural Connaught.
You've asked me to certify lunacy in some very doubtful cases.
Lunacy in the West of Ireland: Its Cause and Cure.
Theology no longer interferes in the treatment of the insane; in fact, it would be manifestly unjust not to mention that many Christian theologians subsequently joined in the noble work of lunacy reform, and aided progress greatly.
A charge of lunacy may screen the action from the knowledge of the world; but there is an all-seeing eye, Lady Corbet, that would mark it, and make you for ever dread to meet the face of Heaven!
What sort of lunacy is it you are up to now, Jack?
When such an inquiry was completed and the commission signed, the Master in Lunacy was to ascertain certain particulars, as the committees of the person and estate which the family proposed to appoint, the amount of the property, etc.
An Act to amend the Lunacy Acts," was passed, but only consisted of three sections referring to one or two doubtful points in the previous Act, which do not require notice.
Such was the unfortunate condition into which Scotch lunacy had drifted, at so comparatively recent a date as 1857, and out of which those who drew up the Report--Alexander E.
These suggestions of the Committee have not yet borne fruit, but will, no doubt, be of service in future lunacy legislation.
For violent lunatics he proposed the Scotch law, which permitted an emergency certificate, enabling persons who had paroxysms of lunacy to be detained for twenty-four hours, but not longer, except on the order of some competent authority.
I will not dwell in detail on the lunacy legislation of these years.
The fifteen persons appointed Commissioners in Lunacyfor the metropolitan district, five of whom were physicians, were paid L1 an hour, and were appointed for one year.
If in all this we are disposed to blame Bethlem, let us still more condemn the lamentable ignorance and miserable medical red-tapism which marked the practice oflunacy in former times.
For the better cure, relief, and treatment of the lunatic and idiotic poor, a complete reorganization of the whole lunacy administration was regarded as essential, viz.
