Moral Insanity

In medical jurisprudence. A derangement of the moral system; a morbid condition, in which the passions, appetites, inclinations, and moral dispositions have eseaped from the control of the will and the conscience, and are porvert. eee ed to immoral acts or uses, although tle facultics of perception, reason, and judgment remain normal, or nearly so, and there is no especial hallucination or illusion. Klepte mania is an example of this condition. Incapacity, from disease, to control one’s coxnduct according to one’s knowledge; uncontrollable morbid impulse; disability of the will to refrain from what one knows is wrong and punishable; a morbid perversion of the affections, inclinations, and temper, independent of any disease or delusion operating directly on the intellect. Abbott, >