A Case of Homicidal Mania

Abstract

The case, to which the observations I am about to make refer, is not, I think, without some interest to us, both as medical men and a? the proprietors or superintendents of private or public asylums. It is calculated, as I believe, to illustrate the not very enviable position we may be, under circumstances, placed in, in reference not only to the Commissioners in Lunacy, but to the public; whose servants the proprietors and superintendents of asylums, of all kinds, are to be considered. The case, moreover, follows, and very properly, the paper of Dr. Conolly's, entitled “On the Prospects of Physicians practising,” in our specialty.