Illustrations of medical evidence and trial by jury in Scotland.

Date:
1855
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Credit: Illustrations of medical evidence and trial by jury in Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    consider Mr Glover entitled to grant such a certificate from the in¬ spection which he made in your presence % [Examination interrupted, and Court adjourned by the or Justice-Clerk, in consequence of his having received intelligence of the death of Lord Kobertson.] Thursday, January 11, 1855. Dr Dobie (examination resumed by Mr Patton). I did furnish a copy of the certificate to Professor Syme. He requested me to do so. I had previously stated to him the facts. I made a few notes in a jotting-book, as I intended to write a letter to I rofessor Syme on the subject; but I did not carry out my intention, because I had an opportunity of speaking to him on the subject, as an interference with his patient. There is a ticket generally put over the bed in which the patients are laid, and there was one over the bed in which this boy was lying. The nature of the wound is inseited in this ticket at the time the patient is dismissed. [The ticket was here produced.] That is the ticket. The Lord Justice Clerk.—Is the nature of the injury not inserted on the ticket when it is hung up %—No. By Mr Patton.—In this case it was inserted on the dismissal of the boy, which was on June 24th, 1853. I had dressed the boy on the morning of Mr Glover’s visit. I do not remember if the nurse was with me at the time. The bandage was not connected with the wound of the soft parts, but was for the purpose of steadying the splint. There was only a dressing of wet lint and gutta peicha over the wound. The gutta percha is of a reddish-brown colour; the bandage was of white calico. All the discharges are removed with the dressing in the morning. The wound was not dischaiging blood. When the wound is discharging blood, and dressed with wet lint, the blood may diffuse itself over the wet lint. Jheie was nothing in the appearance of the boy—I mean apart from the ex¬ amination of his wounds—that was unusual in reference to common injuries from cutting or wounding. The appearance of the tongue and the pulse were quite consistent with a trivial source of injury. The Lord J ustice-Clerk.—As you have told us there w^as con¬ siderable danger, how is that consistent with saying that this was a trivial thingl Were they consistent with the absence of all danger % I)r Dobie —No; because I considered there was some danger.