Note 487 — OF IDIOTS AND LUNATICS.
Reading edition
Hence the term LUNACY, from the supposed regulation of the intellect in certain states, by the influence of the moon; and the distinction between Idiot and Lunatic was formerly of the greatest importance, as the King had the custody of an Idiot to his own use, not so of a Lunatic. F.N.B. 530, n. Dyer, 25.