An analysis of medical evidence : comprising directions for practitioners in the view of becoming witnesses in courts of justice, and an appendix of professional testimony / By John Gordon Smith, M.D.

  • John Gordon Smith
Date:
1825
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Credit: An analysis of medical evidence : comprising directions for practitioners in the view of becoming witnesses in courts of justice, and an appendix of professional testimony / By John Gordon Smith, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    In the outset, it is not unfair to suppose that some may not perceive the degree of importance that belongs to the subject; but tliose Avho have experienced an embarrassed appearance in a public court, and such as have that appearance in view, may find something applicable to their circumstances. If what is here submitted should have but the effect of exciting to the more successful cultivation of a topic, which probably seldom enters the mind until an occasion arises for grappling with it practically, m}^ labour shall not be considered thrown away. How far fore-warning may be available, for the pur- pose of fore-arming, must be matter for con- sideration on the part of those to whom the warning is addressed.
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