The principles of forensic medicine : systematically arranged, and applied to British practice / John Gordon Smith.

  • Smith, John Gordon, 1792-1833.
Date:
1827
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Credit: The principles of forensic medicine : systematically arranged, and applied to British practice / John Gordon Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    INTRODUCTIO The Science, of which it is proposed to treat in the subsequent pages, though one by no means familiar among us, has long been cultivated with assiduity and success in other countries—with assiduity, as respects not only the parties concerned in the la- bours it exacts, but also as regards the encourage- ment it has met with on the part of authorities ; and with success, as respects the benefits imparted to the public in general, and the medical profession in particular. When the Author of the present work looks back to the state in which he found Public Medicine at the time he first turned his attention to it, and considers the progress which has since been made, he cannot help congratulating his countrymen on the improve- ment that has taken place in a very interesting depart- ment of necessary knowledge, and himself, in some measure, on having been instrumental in promoting that improvement. Without meaning the slightest disrespect to authors who preceded him, and without intending to cast any reflection upon their attempts to draw attention to this study, he may fairly say, that until The Principles of Forensic Medicine made their appearance, little or no attention had been bestowed upon it; while from the publications that have since emanated from various most respectable quarters; cither in the form of separate works that