  CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. SUICIDES OF THE ANCIENTS. ANCIENT LAWS AND OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF SUICIDE. CHAPTER I. SUICIDES OF THE ANCIENTS. ANCIENT LAWS AND OPINIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF SUICIDE. CHAPTER II. WRITERS IN DEFENCE OF SUICIDE. CHAPTER III. SUICIDE A CRIME AGAINST GOD AND MAN. IT IS NOT AN ACT OF COURAGE. CHAPTER IV. ON THE INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN MENTAL STATES IN INDUCING THE DISPOSITION TO SUICIDE. CHAPTER V. IMITATIVE, OR EPIDEMIC SUICIDE. CHAPTER VI. SUICIDE FROM FASCINATION. CHAPTER VII. OF THE ENTHUSIASM AND MENTAL IRRITABILITY WHICH, IF ENCOURAGED, WOULD LEAD TO SUICIDE. CHAPTER VIII. PHYSICAL CAUSES OF SUICIDE. CHAPTER IX. MORAL TREATMENT OF SUICIDAL MANIA. CHAPTER X. PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF THE SUICIDAL DISPOSITION. CHAPTER XI. IS THE ACT OF SUICIDE THE RESULT OF INSANITY? CHAPTER XII. SUICIDE IN CONNEXION WITH MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. CHAPTER XIII. STATISTICS OF SUICIDE. CHAPTER XIV. APPEARANCES PRESENTED AFTER DEATH IN THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE. CHAPTER XV. SINGULAR CASES OF SUICIDE. CHAPTER XVI. CAN SUICIDE BE PREVENTED BY LEGISLATIVE Title: The Anatomy of Suicide Author: Forbes Winslow Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Turgut Dincer, |
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THE
ANATOMY OF SUICIDE:
BY
FORBES WINSLOW,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, LONDON;
AUTHOR OF “PHYSIC AND PHYSICIANS.”
London:
HENRY RENSHAW, 356, STRAND.
SOLD BY CARFRAE & SON, EDINBURGH;
AND FANNIN & CO., DUBLIN.
1840.
TO
JAMES JOHNSON, ESQ., M.D.
PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE LATE KING,
ETC. ETC.
This Work is dedicated,
AS A TESTIMONY OF RESPECT FOR HIS HIGH PROFESSIONAL ATTAINMENTS,
AND AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE
ADVANTAGES DERIVED FROM A PERUSAL OF THE MANY ABLE WORKS
WITH WHICH HE HAS ENRICHED
THE MEDICAL LITERATURE OF HIS COUNTRY.
London,—May, 1840.
