Excerpt from Clinical Facts and Reflections: Also Remarks on the Impunity of Murder in Some Cases of Presumed Insanity But in republishing detached cases, I confess that I may appear to give them a value, in which the taste of the present time may not concur. The generalisations of statistical inquiry are at present absorbing attention, and medical works partake largely of this spirit. The quantity of new truth which may be contained in a fact honestly reported, and the quantity of error which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.