 | 1830 - 1098 sidor
...faculty dependent on the brain — the judgment is perverted in insanity, though in different degrees. The impairment of any one or more of the faculties...with, or inducing a defect in the comparing faculty is insanity.'1'' He illustrates these conclusions by a most minute analysis of an immense number of... | |
 | 1830 - 602 sidor
...Secondly, supposing that we had a comparing faculty, what is to be understood when it is said, that tin: impairment of any one or more of the' faculties of the mind, inducing a defect in the comparing faculty — another supposed faculty of mind — constitutes madness?... | |
 | John Read (maker to the army.) - 1831 - 588 sidor
...adopted. ^He puts it interrogatively, whether we can approach any nearer to a definition of insanity than by saying, that it is the impairment of any one...with, or inducing, a defect in the comparing faculty ? " In a former chapter, many examples were given of the sensations being diseased or false ; but in... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 310 sidor
...propositions, and reason scarce at all." "Mental aberration," says Dr. Conolly, "is the impairment of one or more of the faculties of the mind, accompanied with, or inducing, a defect in the comparative faculty." Dr. Battie's notion is more to the purpose. " Insanity," he says, "consists in... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 sidor
...propositions, and reason icarce at all." "Mental aberration," says Dr. Conolly, "is the impairment of one or more of the faculties of the mind, accompanied with, or inducing, a defect in the comparative faculty." Dr. Baltic's notion is more to the purpose. " Insanity," he says, " consists... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 216 sidor
...propositions, and reason scarce at all." "Mental aberration," says Dr. Conolly, "is the impairment of one or more of the faculties of the mind, accompanied with, or inducing, a defect in the comparative faculty." Dr. Baltic's notion is more to the purpose. " Insanity," he says, " consists... | |
 | Maryland. High Court of Chancery, Theodorick Bland - 1836 - 730 sidor
...mind is directed by the will, but is wholly or partially misguided, or erroneously governed by it ; or it is the impairment of any one or more of the faculties...with, or inducing a defect in the comparing faculty. For, as has been observed by a great philosopher, those who either perceive but dully, or retain the... | |
 | I. RAY, M.D. - 1838
...ablysupported speculation on this subject is that of Dr. Conolly, who makes insanity to consist in " the impairment of any one or more of the faculties...with, or inducing, a defect in the comparing faculty." ' There can be no doubt that this power of comparison is often, perhaps, generally, affected in insanity... | |
 | Isaac Ray - 1839 - 474 sidor
...ably-supported speculation on this subject is that of Dr. Conolly, who makes insanity to consist in " the impairment of any one or more of the faculties...accompanied with, or inducing, a defect in the comparing faculty."-)There can be no doubt that this power of comparison is often, perhaps, generally, affected... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 sidor
...disease, and defends it with much acuteness and a long array of analyzed cases. He affirms, that insanity is " the impairment of any one or more of the faculties...with, or inducing, a defect in the comparing faculty." A person, who merely suffers a morbid affection of one or more of his intellectual faculties, must... | |
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LUNACY is that condition or habit in which the mind is directed by the will, but is wholly or partially misguided, or erroneously governed by it ; or it is the impairment of any one or more of the faculties of the mind, accompanied with, or inducing a... 
