The Medical World, Volume 14

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Roy Jackson., 1896
 

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Page 436 - But whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive or intent is a necessary element to constitute a particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time, in determining the purpose, motive or intent with which he committed the act.
Page 455 - For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them ; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Page 436 - A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as £either] : . 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, 2. Not to know that the act was wrong.
Page 120 - HalfRussia, $5.50 net. Philadelphia: The FA Davis Co., Publishers, 1914 and 1916 Cherry Street.
Page xxxiv - AgentS— Iron and Manganese; The ToniCS — Quinine and Strychnine ; And the Vitalizing Constituent — Phosphorus ; the whole combined in the form of a Syrup with a Slightly Alkaline Reaction.
Page 37 - Pregnancy, Labor and the Puerperal State. By Egbert H. Grandin, MD, consulting surgeon to the New York Maternity Hospital; consulting gynecologist to the French Hospital, NY, etc.; and George W.
Page 436 - No act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication, shall be deemed less criminal by reason of his having been in such condition.
Page 492 - Diseases." This is a change which has been deemed necessary for some time, as it is essential that the title of a medical journal should convey to the reader an idea of its contents, and this has not been the case with its name from the beginning. There will be no change in the policy of the journal in the least.
Page 159 - renders the intestinal canal antiseptic, and so removes the cause of the disorder, instead of locking the putrid material in the bowel, as does opium.
Page 37 - Philadelphia, etc., etc. Third Edition, Thoroughly Revised. Reset with New Type and Printed from New Electrotype Plates. Royal Octavo, Pages ix.

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