A manual of medical jurisprudence and state medicine, compiled from the latest legal and medical works, of Beck, Paris, Christison, Fodere, Orfila, etc. ... Intended for the use of legislators, barristers, magistrates, coroners, private gentlemen, jurors, and medical practitioners. Containing part I. Medical ethics ... Part II. Laws relating to the medical profession ... Part III. Medical jurisprudence and state medicine ... Part IV. Laws relating to the preservation of public health / By Michael Ryan.
- Michael Ryan
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of medical jurisprudence and state medicine, compiled from the latest legal and medical works, of Beck, Paris, Christison, Fodere, Orfila, etc. ... Intended for the use of legislators, barristers, magistrates, coroners, private gentlemen, jurors, and medical practitioners. Containing part I. Medical ethics ... Part II. Laws relating to the medical profession ... Part III. Medical jurisprudence and state medicine ... Part IV. Laws relating to the preservation of public health / By Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![questions were discussed in our periodicals, but no work appeared in the United Kingdom, expressly treating of the subject, previous to the small and imperfect production of the first Professor Dease, of Dublin, the author of the work on Injuries of the Head, which was published in 1783, entitled, ‘* Remarks on Medical Jurisprudence,” dedicated to Lord Clonmel, Chief Justice of Ireland. “ This was the first attempt to write on medical jurisprudence in our native lan- guage.’’* The next in succession was also an imperfect production, by Dr. Samuel Farr, in 1788, entitled, «“* Elements of Me- dical Jurisprudence,”? and was an abstract of the work of Vaselius, already noticed. In or about this period the first professor Duncan, of Edinburgh, delivered a private course of lectures on the subject, and was chiefly instrumental in direct- ing the attention of the profession to its importance. In 1808 Dr. Robertson published a Treatise on Medical Police, in two volumes. In 1815, Dr. Bartley, of Bristol, published a most imperfect work, entitled, a Treatise on Forensic Medicine. The first respectable and original production that this country contributed to medical jurisprudence, was “ An Epitome of Juridical or Forensic Medicine, for the Use of Medical Men, Coroners, and Barristers,’’ by Dr. Male, of Birmingham, who is justly considered the father of the science in Great Britain and Ireland. ‘This work was published in 1816. It embraces the following subjects :—Poisons, wounds and con- tusions, infanticide, pregnancy, abortion and concealed birth, pretended delivery, rape, hanging and strangulation, drown- ing, dangerous inebriety, insanity, pretended diseases, im- puted diseases, apparent death, impotence, hermaphrodites. ‘These subjects are described in one hundred and ninety-nin octavo pages. , It is true, that there are many valuable discussions on various medico-legal questions in the writings of Mead, Monro, the Hunters, Denman, Percival, and others; but these eminent individuals have no claim to rank among our authors on medical jurisprudence. Dr. John Gregory’s Duties and Qualifications of a Physician, and Dr. Percival’s Medical Ethics, contain much valuable information on the moral duties of the prefession, and which naturally comprise the rules that ought to guide them in public and private prac- tice, and consequently in state and forensic inquiries. ‘There are also admirable essays on certain medico-legal questions, such as Dr. Hunter’s, ‘* On the Uncertainty of the Signs of * Dr. Gordon Smith’s Analysis of Medical Evidence, 1825. Appendix, p. [8] p. 181.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33095097_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
