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 / by Michael Ryan.

Michael Ryan

Date:: 1836

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 / by Michael Ryan. 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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hensive system of foreign schools in his lectures on medical jurisprudence, after the following plan :—-Introductory. Me- dical economy and ethics, education, distinctions, rights, privileges, immuni- ties of the faculty, qualifications for pro- fessor and lectureships, hospital and other officers, moral or ethical deportment of medical practitioners in public and pri- vate practice. First Division. Medical jurisprudence, legal, forensic, juridical or judiciary me- dicine, or the application of medicine and its collateral sciences to the elucida- tion of civil and criminal proceedings during judicial inquiries. Arrangement of the subject according to Blackstone, medico-legal questions relating to the morals, and the reproduction of the spe- cies ; defloration, marriage, uterogesta- tion or pregnancy, verification of, du'a- tion of, legitimacy, abortion, parturition or delivery, prolicide, or infanticide. At- tempts against health and life, maiming, mutilating, homicide, duelling, suicide, persons found dead ; coroner's inquests, duties of medical witnesses, autopsies or post mortem examinations ; homicide by sufTocation, drowning, hanging, choking, smothering, irrespirable gases, torrefac- tion, combustion or burning, cold, star- vation. Poisoning, including the science of toxicology, or the history, action, treatment, and detection, of every known poison, this last illustrated by experi- ments, casts, and drawings. Mental alienation, idiocy, imbecility, mania, monomania, dementia, legal and medical definitions of, civil and criminal respon- sibility, lucid intervals, execution of bonds and wills, medical certificates, actions for, responsibility of drunkards, epileptics, hysterics, somnambulists, and those subject to violent fits of passion. Competency of deaf, dumb, and blind, to execute deeds, bonds, and wills. Simu- lated or feigned diseases, as in cases of soldiers, sailcjrs, prisoners ; dissimulated, or concealed diseases; pretended, when an advantage, revenge, or escape of pun- ishment is the object; imputed, when no disease exists, but when property is to be gained. Disqualifying diseases in cases of jurors, witnesses, soldiers, &c., for hard labour, flogging, treadmill; mode of examining recruits, impostures; estima- tion of insurability of life, diseases which affect policy, exceptions, suicide, duelling, or dying by the hands of justice. Medical evidence, law on dying declara- tions, hearsay evidence, when admissible —confession of accused ; conduct of me- dical practitioners in all these cases. Propriety of appointing medical coroners. Lastly, forms of certificates for exempting jurors, witnesses, soldiers, persons pro- posing to insure their lives in cases of insanity, &c., &c. Second Division. Duties of the medical profession in co-operation with the legis- lature, government and magistracy for the conservation of public health, and for le- gislation relating to the practice of the profession. These topics constitute pub- lic, political or state madicine, public hygiene, police of health, or medical po- lice. This department embraces age, physical education, when crime can be committed, marriage and population, im- potence, sterility, hermaphrodites, mons- ters, divorce, fecundity, mortality ; air, aliment, their adulterations, contagious and epidemic diseases, precautionary measures, quarantine, diseases incidental to certain trades, temporary hospitals, boards of health, medical legislation. For further particulars, apply to Dr. Ryan, at his residence, 4, Great Queen Street, St. James's Park, Westminster. TERMS: £ s. For one course of six months on Medicine 5 5 For one ditto of Midwifery 5 5 For one ditto of Medical .lurispru- dence 3 3 Perpetual to the above lectures, if entered to at once ]0 10 If perpetual to the School 10 0 pr. Ri/aii's Practice may he attended at the Free Hospital, and Western Dispensary, near the Westminster Hospital; ivhere Students enjoy the most ample opportunities of observing Diseases. Terms, Five Guineas.

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