Punch,  42 (1862), 117.

One of Shaftesbury's Characteristics

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Mental Illness, Religion


    Discusses a speech made in the House of Lords by Anthony A Cooper (7th Earl of Shaftesbury) on the Lunacy Bill, in which the peer illustrated the incompetence of even the 'greatest medical authorities' by referring to one medical practitioner who judged a woman to be insane on the basis of her conversion to Judaism. Urges Shaftesbury to remember that the medical practitioner was 'chaffing him' and doubtless recognised that 'perfectly sane persons had subscribed money to the conversion of the Jews'.



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