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Excerpt from A Letter to the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellor: On the Nature and Interpretation of Unsoundness of Mind, and Imbecility of Intellect
Although we may apply the word unsoundness, in a figurative or metaphorical sense, to the human mind, yet we cannot detect in it any of the marks dr indications that characterize the unsoundness of substances acknowledged to be in that state it is, therefore, under this conviction, and with the'view of increasing our knowledge of the human intellect, that, on the behalf of the members of the medihal profession, I venture to solicit your Lordship, on the first opportunity that may occur, to elucidate the nature of this unsoundness or mind, so that physicians may be enabled thoroughly to ascertain its existence, and conscientiously depose to that effect, and also that it may be recognized by the jury, when they proceed to make their inference, in order that, by their return, your Lordship may appoint the proper committees 'of the person and.
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