Note 61:A — ON Medical JURISPRUDENCE, &c. &c.

It has been observed that the finding a commission is like signing the death-warrant of an individual: it certainly consigns his person and property to the management of others appointed by the chancellor. But it should be fully understood that this process is exclusively a process of law, and resorted to by the relations, or trustees for the insane person. The medical practitioner has no interest whatever in this legal instrument—on the contrary, he is generally a loser by the finding of the commission, which ordinarily implies (though improperly) a confirmed state of disease, rendering less necessary medical advice and attendance.