Legitimate Influence of Epilepsy Upon Criminal Responsibility

Softcover 8vo, 445-466pp. Good with soil and wear to wraps, including a small chip toward the lower foredge of the cover and splitting along the top 2 inches of the spine, faint vertical crease throughout textblock. "Reprinted from the proceedings of the Medico-Legal Society of New York." Lecture tying epilepsy with "mental derangement," citing Esquerol's statistic that four-fifths of epileptics suffer "some form of mental disorder," and exploring causality between the two with reference to contemporary theories and many case studies, many American. Scarce; OCLC shows only digital holdings.