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.

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    TO THE SECOND EDITION. Tue design of this work is to explain the phy- sical grounds on which we may conclude that the human frame has sustained injury—whether fatal to life, or not. It 1s offered to the consi- deration of MAGISTRATES, CoroneERS, BARRIS- TERS, and MeEpIcaL PRACTITIONERS, in the hope that some useful hints may be derived, both as to asking and answering the questions that should be put, when events of such nature become matter of Judiciary investigation. It has reached a second edition within as short a period * as the warrantable expectations of the author could have anticipated ; and he is now enabled not only to present a greater collection of facts, but to hope that other im- provements will also be manifest. The former.edition was submitted to the pub- * Little more than. two years. he