Hallucination

In Medical Jurisprudence. The perception by any of the senses of an object which has no existence. The conscious recognition of a sensation of sight, hearing, feeling, taste, or smell which is not due to any impulse received by the perceptive apparatus from without, but arises within the perceptive apparatus itself. A false perception in contradistinction to a delusion or false belief. Wood, Am. Text-Book of Med. An error, a blunder, a mistake, a fallacy; and when used In describing the condition of a person, does not necessarily carry an imputation of Insanity. Foster’s Ex’rs r.

Dickerson, 64 Vt 233, 24 Atl. 253.

An instance Is given of a temporary hallucination in the celebrated Ben Jonson» the poet He told a friend of his that he had spent many a night in looking at his great toe, about which he had seen Turks and Tartars, Romans and Carthaginians, light in his imagination.

1 Collin. Lun. 84.

If, instead of being temporary, this affection of his mind had been permanent, he would doubtless have been eonsidered insane. See, on the subject of spectral illusions, Hibber, Alderson, and Farrar’s Essays; Scott on Demonology, etc.; 3 Bostock, Physiology M, 161; 1 Bsqulrol, Maladies Mentales 159. See Insanity. church or sepulchre, and were excused from feudal services.

Hist. Dunelm. apud Whartonl Ang. Sax. pt 1, p. 749.

Especially in the county of Durham, those who held by service of defending the corpse of St Cuthbert Jacob, Law Diet.