심신상실과 관련된 법의학적 법철학. The Book of Medical Jurisprudence as it Relates to Insanity,Accor

심신상실과 관련된 법의학적 법철학. The Book of Medical Jurisprudence as it Relates to Insanity,According to the Law of England, by John Haslam
PREFACE.
The consideration, that in our own language, no work existed on the subject
of Medical Jurisprudence, as it relates solely to Insanity, urged me to the present
performance. Previously to this undertaking manifold impediments were foreseen,
and these difficulties have augmented in every page of its progress:―the
apprehensions from this arduous attempt, have, however, been mitigated by the
consoling reflection, that in a novel enterprize criticism would be tempered with
candour.
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The following sheets are addressed to the readers of different pursuits, law
and medicine:―from the latter, I have heretofore experienced much indulgence
and encouragement, when the result of my professional labours has been
submitted to their judgment:[ i:A]―to the former I am little known: and here feel it
necessary, by a distinct avowal, to assert that I have in no manner presumed to
encroach on their province. Although the title may seem to imply an incorporation
of the two sciences, yet it is not to be considered as the combination of definite
proportions of legal and medical knowledge. It has been modestly conceived that
the general phenomena of disordered intellect, and the criteria of insanity, would
not be unacceptable to the [ iii] advocate; who might thereby become enabled to
adapt the facts in nature to the scale of justice. Furnished with such information,
he will be instructed to institute appropriate enquiries for the discovery of truth,
and to ascertain what is the duty of the medical evidence to supply:―so that he
may not be pressed beyond his resources, nor the depths of his intelligence be
left unsounded. On the practitioner of my own profession I have ventured to
impress the importance and moral obligation of his evidence before the tribunal
of justice, and to enforce, that the value of medical opinion becomes enhanced
by perspicuity of conveyance, and derives authority from the exposure of its
foundations. It has likewise been my object, to direct his attention to those
leading points which usually constitute the subjects of his deposition,