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But to the law the fact that a man is insane is as indifferent as that he has a broken leg.

The doctor with his patient is wholly occupied with his condition and how best to remedy it, irrespective of how others may be affected; the law is concerned with how he will perform his duties toward others, and insist on his own rights, but is wholly indifferent to his condition of health in itself.

" If it should happen that a Judge were to be called in by a medical man to assist in the treatment of an insane man, he -would necessarily follow out the methods of medical treatment.

And so where a medical man is called upon to assist in the ad- ministration of the law, he must adapt himself for that occasion to the principles of the law.

Neither Judge nor lawyer need, while assisting in the province of the other, abandon the views he holds in his own province, nor does he.