Excerpt from The Medical and Legal Relations of Madness: Showing a Cellular Theory of Mind, and of Nerve Force, and Also of Vegetative Vital Force<br><br>This inquiry will aim to bring the question within the rules of induction which guide other inquiries, and to show that diseased affections of the mind, and of the senses, may be traced to injury or decay, or to an abnormal condition of the organic structures.<br><br>The relation of madness with jurisprudence has hitherto been as intimate as with medicine; but inflexible legal codes, adapted to the interests of property and of material things, have proved inadequate to cope with the laws of physiology and life; and jurisprudence badly comprehends the interests of the lunatic.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.