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. 1852 Jun;5(30):500–515.

Practical Remarks on Insanity as It Occurs among the Inhabitants of Bengal

Thomas A Wise 1
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The term insanity comprehends, according to the Hindu law, not only madness and idiocy, but all those who labour under any species of fatuity, and who are naturally destitute of power of discriminating what may, or may not be done.—MacNaughton's Principles of Hindu Law, vol. i. p. 121.

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