| Description Of Item | An article from the Pall Mall Gazette about the controversy of calling physicians and surgeons to be witnesses in court. Reasons why they were usually distrusted in court and the loose legal description of insanity were discussed. The article mentions George Jenkinson, Lord Penzance (James Wilde), Alfred Swaine Taylor, the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment (1864-1866), and the Bavarian penal code. From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |