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Excerpt from Anomalies of the English Law
Hear him in a lunacy case - listen to the deep and subtle distinctions he draws be tween symptoms of mere eccentricity and erring intellect - remark how insignificant the physician appears in the case, who has made these things the study of a life long - hear how the barrister confounds him with a hail-storm of technicals - talking of the pineal gland as if it were an officer of the court, and of atrophy of the cerebral lobes, as if he were speaking of an attorney's clerk. Listen to him in a trial of supposed death by poison; what a triumph he has there, particularly if he be a junior barrister - how he walks undismayed among all the tests for arsenic how little he cares for Marsh's apparatus and Scheele's discoveries - hydro-sulphates, peroxydes, iod urates, and proto-chlorides are as familiar to him as household words. You would swear that he was nursed at a glass retort, and sipped his first milk through a blow-pipe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
