Show SIGNS OF MORAL INSANITY abnormal mental tendencies Tend enclee noted by prominent english rhys physician ician before the loyal commis slon blon on the care and control of the feeble minded dr C A mercier Mer cler representing the roal hoal college ol of clans reports the washington star said bald 1 I 1 certainly think there la Is such buch a thing ming as moral insanity borne bome remarkable cases were men honed by dr mercier an intelligent child ot of senen had bad learned about the pawn broling bust busl ness nesa ba b tending leading an article in a maga zine haung learned while at dinner where some rings I 1 vere ere kept he tool took an opportunity tunit of slipping into the rooms room s took the rings and ml went int out a and a d p pined ned them it was nas a deeply laid plot dr mercur did not say that the child was nias responsible at that age but ce certainly it I 1 was as not the conduct of 0 a normal child vi who ho had that very diy daiy been soundly soun ll thrashed tor for stealing A normal child could be made to appreciate and rog cognize nize what he had lone done but this child could not bo be made to appreciate lt there was as another case of a oung man who iho while attending one ot of the military colleges as a student stole some onto clothes and wore nore them in the presence ot of their rightful owners lie he was a amply supplied with clothes end and mony by his parents but he liked these clothes better than his and took them lie ile could not be persuaded that it N was as a wrong thing to do but there was as ro other saitom la in him ot of imbecility dr mercier went bent on to give mother another ca case cae e ot of a nurse who he said had pots boned as many as 40 of 0 her patients it was A as impo impossible rable at that time to discover any intellectual detect defect in her ber she bhe was as found foially insane because no motive could lie be traced indeed the she poisoned were her intimate friends after she had ben in an a actual 1 I n 1 tor for seral years symptoms ot of definite insanity began to exhibit and she bho soon became berlt er deeply |