Produced by Lisa Reigel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Notes: Words in italics in the original are surrounded with _underscores_. Variations in spelling and hyphenation remain as in the original. A row of asterisks represents a thought break. A complete list of corrections follows the text. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, AS IT RELATES TO INSANITY, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND. BY JOHN HASLAM, M.D. LATE OF PEMBROKE HALL, CAMBRIDGE. FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL MEDICAL, NATURAL HISTORY AND CHEMICAL SOCIETIES OF EDINBURGH. London: PRINTED FOR C. HUNTER, LAW BOOKSELLER, BELL YARD; J. HUNTER, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH YARD; AND TAYLOR AND HESSEY, FLEET STREET. 1817. PREFACE. The consideration, that in our own language, no work existed on the subject of Medical Jurisprudence, as it relates solely to Insanity, urged me to the present performance. Previously to this undertaking manifold impediments were foreseen, and these difficulties have augmented in every page of its progress:—the apprehensions from this arduous attempt, have, however, been mitigated by the consoling reflection, that in a novel enterprize criticism would be tempered with candour.