[753]. Hill, pp. 87, 88.
[754]. Halliday, Lunatic Asylums, p. 2.
[755]. F. Willis, A Treatise on Mental Derangement, p. 6. London, 1823.
[756]. Lunatic Asylums, p. 2.
[757]. W. A. F. Browne, p. 4.
[758]. Borderland of Insanity, p. 11.
[759]. Alexander Gibson, in Ency. Brit. ninth ed. art. “Insanity (Law).”
[760]. “That” (kleptomania) “is one of the diseases I was sent here to cure,” a certain judge is said to have observed; but he did not cure it.
[761]. One of these legal tests had been a knowledge of the multiplication table. W. A. F. Browne, p. 3.
[762]. The “robust” attitude has been shown by Dickens. “That young Pitcher’s had a fever.” “No!” exclaimed Mr. Squeers. “Damn that boy, he’s always at something of that sort.” “Never was such a boy, I do believe,” said Mrs. Squeers; “whatever he has is always catching too. I say it’s obstinacy, and nothing shall ever convince me that it isn’t. I’d beat it out of him.”—Nicholas Nickleby, chap. vii.