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Ref NoDEP/LAT/1/57/60
TitlePress cutting about defining insanity
Date18 Jan 1862
Description Of ItemA letter from WS [William Smith] Scholefield in Pickering, published in the Medical Times and Gazette. He criticised the loose legal definition of insanity, comparing it to the loose definition of drunkenness. The letter mentions suicide and infanticide. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
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