A manual of legal medicine : for the use of practitioners and students of medicine and law / by Justin Herold.

Date:
1902
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Credit: A manual of legal medicine : for the use of practitioners and students of medicine and law / by Justin Herold. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    dilated upon in three chapters,—i.e., Chapters XXV., XXVI., and XXVII. respectively. Violent Death from Different Forms of Apnoea is discussed in Chapters XXIX., XXX., and XXXI., the subjects, treated in the same order, being Suffocation, Strangulation and Hanging, Drowning, together with the Medico-Legal Aspects of Electricity, including the mode of judicial execution in New York State (Electrocution) and the Effects of Lightning. At the end of the book will be found an Appendix, which gives various important cases, etc. The writer has now to return his most grateful thanks to Civil Justice George F. Roesch, of the Fourth District Court of this city, for his exceed- ingly interesting chapter on Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence. He also has en- deavored, to the best of his ability and recollection, to acknowledge, in the course of the work, the sources from which he has culled information. The extracts from other writers have been introduced in their original language, except in those instances where it was deemed necessary to make some slight changes to incorporate the quotation the better with the passage with which it comes in connection. Among the works from which the writer has extracted freely, and to which acknowledgments are due, are the elab- orate and standard ones of Witthaus, Hamilton, Tidy, Reese, Taylor, Whar- ton and Stills, and others {vide Bibliography of Authorities, Appendix). The writer has endeavored to adhere to a systematic arrangement through- out the work. This has been done as far as was practicable, but in certain instances it has been departed from ; especially was this the case where it became obligatory on his part to introduce new facts that had arisen after the parts of the book to which they belonged had been finished. The table of contents and the index have been prepared with extreme care, so that the detached pieces of information referred to above will be readily found when looked up. Should any errors of commission or omission be discovered by readers, the writer asks their indulgence, as the work has been prepared in the midst of a busy professional career. Justin Herold. New York City, September, 1897.