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ai i cnaugeu j iavCompare the symptoms ofinsani- j ’,))S (y ia Dougherty's case asset up ; in that hypothesis, with those. oil real insanUy as described by Dr. HeWood: j tin‘•The patient talks loudly, rapid- j jj* ly, incoherently; Hies from one top-1 j | , io to another, and finishes none; i ,- •* * strips himself naked j A,1i yand even bitesliis own llesli in Idsinsane fury. Broken thoughts chase one anotner with tierce haste : ,l througli his brain, * * *and malice.fury,hatred and revenge struggle fertile mastery in his agitated features.gitio?ral VeIncases like Dougherty’s, law-i gavers talk much about homicidal litimpulse, insane impulse, homicidal | j’A monomania, and impulsive insanityanta#cntilth.hkcl(etc. Taylor defines homicidal monomania tobe‘‘a state of partial in-sanitig accompanied by an impulse to the. perpetration of murder; animpulse under which persons will destroy those to whom they are ^most fondly attached.’’One of the prominent and characteristic deferences between real j and feigned homicidal insanity is, 01 that in the former, persons are just as liable to kill their most cherish- | e.u ed friends as their enemies,and that! loicowiciitoo, without any apparent motive D|K whatever, while in ilie latter, they . ccalways kill some one who has done j [\\ them or their friends an injury. In ; ty. stead of killing a.sister,for instance, j a c as the true homicidal monomaniac j Af would bo likelv to do, thev kill 111 some one in drftnne of that sister, which shows a sane state of mind,1 lif rather than otherwise. Anger is ;mione of the affective faculties in our 1,11Ccmoral nature, as contradistinguished from the intellectual part of our being, and is, a natural passion. Prof. Dunglison says:“Hatred and- vengence are theantei1Ilt;indanatural and impetuous desire of1Juinjuring those that injure us.”To feel anger, and resentment: pe‘when our rights, or those of a friend ashave been invaded, is quite a ra-jontional feeling There is 110 evidence (ln1 »•/1of insanity in it, but quite there-1 verse. _ i |,pThe iollowing cases will serve to . foi illustrate the course of real homi- j SL cidal monomania: hfu*) VA father, industrious and afiec-; j*ntionate, fell into reversed circumstances, which so weighed upon his mind that he resolved to deslrov his children to save them from snf-upHp'Sl£fering. Accordingly, lie strangledintwcUKall four of them in one night. He made no effort to escape; made no lif. defense at all; but several physicians came forward and deposedthat he was insane. No sane man i would do the like. ; |u(to isi: co\ iT.\Ti:i.} • (jnifcoI'cftie
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Lebanon Boone County Pioneer
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 09, 1870
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