A handbook of medical jurisprudence and toxicology : for the use of students and practitioners / by William A. Brend.

Date:
1906
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Credit: A handbook of medical jurisprudence and toxicology : for the use of students and practitioners / by William A. Brend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CHAPTER XVII. THE OBLIGATIONS, STATUTORY AND MORAL, OF THE MEDICAL MAN. PACE Qualification and registration—Registration of birth—Still-birth— Monsters—Certification of death—Violent, sudden, and sus- picious deaths—Dying declarations—Will making—Notifi- cation of disease—Transmission of pathological specimens by post — Examination of the living in medico-legal cases — Malapraxis—Operations and consent—Professional secrecy: in criminal matters; in civil matters—The medical man and “ undue influence,” ......... i6o CHAPTER XVIII. EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE AS REGARDS THE MEDICAL MAN. Evidence: direct and circumstantial; parole and documentary; cer- tificates, dying declarations and reports; hearsay; common and expert—The medical man as a witness—Procedure—The sub- poena—The coroner’s court—Other courts—Fees allowed to medical witnesses, ......... 176 PART II.—TOXICOLOGY. CHAPTER XIX. GENERAL FACTS WITH REGARD TO POISONS. Delinition of a poison, and the law with regard to the administra- tion of poisons—Sale of poisons—Action of poisons—Circum- stances tnodifying the action of poisons—.Statistics of poisoning by CLCcidcnt, suicide, and homicide—Diagnosis of poisoning— Conduct of tile medic.al man in a case of suspected chronic poisoning—Principles of treatment of poisoning; antagonism —Separation of poisons from organic material, &c.—Classifi- cation of poisons, ..... 1