alienist

• He blundered into the edge of the table and knocked the wind out of his lungs as the alienist with the needle calmly reached for something on the tray that looked like a nail gun. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#4
• The names “alienist,” “barrister” or “government official” now had for her the glamour that formerly surrounded film actors and professional wrestlers. —  The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
• "Only an alienist," Fleming admitted, "could have chronicled our activities either seriously or scientifically." —  The Nation: Top Stories
• One alienist is an American, who is quite prepared to acknowledge its jurisdiction, being by reason of his nationality not easily daunted by mere constitutional queerness. —  G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
• In case excessive importance should be attached to such inferences I should add that in the diagnosis of hysteria contemporary neurologists pay less attention than did Charcot to unilateral hallucinations of sight Footnote 2752: A famous French alienist (1825-1893).--W.S Footnote 2753: Progrčs medical_, January 19, 1878 Footnote 2754: The existence of patches devoid of feeling was considered in the Middle Ages to prove that the subject was a witch. —  The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2

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