Notes on Faselius's book on Forensic Medicine

Headed: "Notata in Medicinam legalem præcente Excell. D. Doctore Faselio Ao. 1756. M. 8br." Paged 1-99. (Page 1 = 452). The work commented upon is Institutiones Medicinæ Legalis vel Forensis by Joannes Fredericus Faselius; there were several editions of this work, the fifth being published at Jena in 1762. Prolegomena (pp. 1-22); Commentaries on the Chapters of Faselius in the following order: Cap. xx, De Venenis (p. 3-19); Cap. x, De Abortu (pp. 19-25); Cap. viii, De Tempore Animationis Fœtus (p. 25); Cap. xxiv, De Infanticidio (pp. 26-38); Cap. xxii, De Vulnerum Lethalitate (pp. 39-56); Cap. xxi, De Necessaria Cadaverum Inspectione (pp. 56-61); Cap. xxv, De Tortura (pp. 61-66); Cap. xv, De Impotentia Conjugali (pp. 66-70); Cap. xvi, De Impedimentis Coeundi et Generandi ex parte Mulieris (pp. 70-74); Cap. xiv, De Hormaphroditis (pp. 74-75); Cap. xiii, De Monstris (pp. 75-78); Cap. iv, De Virginitate (pp. 78-82); Cap. v, De Impregnatione occulta (pp. 82-84); Cap. vi, De Impregnatione Affectata et Simulata (pp. 84-85); Cap. ix, De Partu Perfecto et Legitimo (pp. 85-87); Cap. xi, De Superfœtatione (pp. 87-88); Cap. xii, De Molis (pp. 88-90); Cap. xvii, De Morbis Fictis (pp. 90-92); Cap. xviii, De Morbis Celatis (pp. 92-94); Cap. xix, De Peste (pp. 94-95); Cap. i, De Aetatum Divisione (pp. 95-96); Cap. ii, De Primogenitis (p. 96); Cap. iii, De Necessaria Fœtus ex utero matris in partu mortuæ, Ex sectione (pp. 97-98); Cap. vii, De Partu Suppositio, etc. (p. 97); Various notes (pp. 98-99). All the 25 chapters of Facelius's work are here commented upon except xxiii.

18th century

pp. 1-99

Johann Frederick Fasel, a celebrated German physician, was born in 1721 and died in 1767.

Described in: Warren R. Dawson, Manuscripta medica. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Medical Society of London (London, 1932).