Medical jurisprudence, as it relates to insanity : according to the law of England / By John Haslam.

  • Haslam, John, 1764-1844.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Medical jurisprudence, as it relates to insanity : according to the law of England / By John Haslam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    advocate ; who might thereby become ena- bled to adapt the facts in nature to the scale of justice. Furnished with such information, he will be instructed to institute appropriate enquiries for the discovery of truth, and to ascertain what is the duty of the medical evidence to supply :—so that he may not be pressed beyond his resources, nor the depths of his intelligence be left unsounded. On the practitioner of my own profession I have ventured to impress the importance and moral obligation of his evidence before the tribunal of justice, and to enforce, that the value of medical opinion becomes enhanced by per- spicuity of conveyance, and derives authority from the exposure of its foundations. It has likewise been my object, to direct his atten- tion to those leading points which usually constitute the subjects of his deposition, or are presented for his solution during the course of legal examination.