Notes on the progress of legal medicine : the medicolegal study of injuries / by Wyatt Johnston.
- Johnston, Wyatt, 1863-1902.
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Notes on the progress of legal medicine : the medicolegal study of injuries / by Wyatt Johnston. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![books, monographs, and collections of case-reports and important decisions have also been published. Of these I would specially mention Constantin Kaufmann’s Handbuch der Unfallverlelzung, 2d Ed., 1897 ; L. Beeker, Lehrbuch der Sachverstdndigeri, 1896; E. Golebiewski, Handbuch der Unfallsvereicherung, 2d Ed., 1897 ; P. Bla- sius, Unfcdlversicherungsgesetz tind Arzt, 1892. Very full official reports, with details of cases and decisions, are also published by the German Imperial Accident Insur- ance Bureau, and collections of illustrative cases have been issued by R. Kaan, F. Ritter, and others. R. Stern’s monograph on Traumatische Entstehicng innerer Krankheiten, as well as his article Trauma als Krank- heilaursctche, in Lubarsch and Ostertag’s Ergebnisse, de- serve special mention ; as does also the recent article by Thoinet, La Pneumonie Traumatique in Annales d^Hygiene publique, July, 1898. Much of the best German scientific work in this department is by men who are proprietors of private sanitariums, hospitals, institutions for mechanical ther- apy, massage, etc. The leaven of science does not ap- pear to work to the same extent upon the j)roprietors of our own numerous institutions and sanitariums, for, with certain noteworthy exceptions, of which that at Saranac Lake is the best known, the publications from our “ institutes ” suggest other motives than the mere advancement of science. On studying the matter, it appears that the cause of such conspicuously rapid and * satisfactory progress in Germany may be summarized as follows : 1. The fact of a large proportion of the population being in Government employ has led to State-control of accident-insurance and benefit-societies, so that accident- insurance loses in large part the character of a private business-enterprise, and the medical men employed in it become placed in a ]>osition where they can view](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22335481_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
