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mental disease

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Psychopathy

Mental disease See Psychosis 2

Bromism

diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness … A diseased condition produced by the excessive use of bromine or one of its compounds It is characterized by mental

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Person of unsound mind

who are proved to the satisfaction of the judge in lunacy to be, through mental infirmity arising from disease or age, incapable of managing their affairs. The powers and duties of the Commissioners in Lunacy were transferred … Person of unsound mind, a term by which in a more enlightened age persons afflicted with a mental illness affecting their reason are to be known, as distinguished from Idiots, Imbeciles, Feeble-minded Persons and Moral Defectives

mental defect

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mental illness

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New Thought

Any form of belief in mental healing other than 1 Christian Science and 2 hypnotism or psychotherapy It was practised in the 19th century … attitude As a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent mental treatment and the theory that all diseases are mental in origin As a cult it has its unifying idea the inculcation of workable optimism in

Health

is thus a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, CESC Ltd. v. Subhash Chandra Bose, AIR 1992 SC 573: (1992) 1 SCC 441. … of health and medical care generate devotion and dedication to give the workers' best, physically as well as mentally, in productivity. It enables the worker to enjoy the fruit of his labour, to keep him physically fit

Rickets

depressed ribs enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses tumid abdomen and short stature together with clear and often premature mental faculties The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid

Child in need of care and protection

reasonable likelihood of the child in question being killed, abused or neglected by that person, (iii) who is mentally or physically challenged or ill children or children suffering from terminal diseases or incurable diseases having no one … by that person, (iii) who is mentally or physically challenged or ill children or children suffering from terminal diseases or incurable diseases having no one to support or look after, (iv) who has a parent or guardian

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