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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    Class I. Questions relating to the extinction of life. Class II. Questions arising from personal injuries, not involving a fatal issue. Class III. Disqualifications for the discharge of offices, or the exercise of social functions. Class IV. Miscellaneous questions. Under the first class we shall endeavour to com- prehend all cases of death, in w^hich there may be question of violence, criminal interference, or any unnatural or unusual cause. The range of the second is necessarily limited ; the juridical relations, which formerly com^prehended many interesting questions, being annulled by re- cent improvements in our criminal jurisprudence. The only important question now coming under this head being that of rape. Under the third, however, we shall have to review points of the deepest interest, many of them demand- ing attention on the part of those who are neither of the medical nor legal profession:— And the last will comprehend a few important topics which cannot, with strict propriety, be as- signed to any of the preceding classes.