Volume 1

Medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine and toxicology / by R.A. Witthaus and Tracy C. Becker ; with the collaboration of August Becker [and others].

Date:
1894-1896
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    vailia, and at that time Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania, reprinted, v^ith notes and additions, the English works of Farr, Dease, Male, and Hasla.m.' The v^orks of Ryan, Chitty, Traill, and Giiy were also reprinted in this country shortly after their publication in England. In 1823, ^Dr. Theodric Romeyn Beck pubhshed at Albany the first edition of a treatise as admirable for scholarly elegance of diction as for profound scientific research. This remarkable work, facile princeps among English works on legal medicine, has had twelve American and English editions, and has been translated into German and Swedish.^ Papers upon medico-legal subjects or reports of lectures were published by J. W. Francis,^ J. Webster,* R. E. Griffith,^ R. Dungiison, J. Bell./and S. W. Williams^ between 1823 and 1835. In 1840, Amos Dean, Professor of Medical Jurispru- dence at the Albany Medical College, published a medico-legal work, followed by another in 1854, which with the later work of Elwell aro the only treatises on forensic medicine upon the title-pages of which no physician's name appears.^ N umerous papers and tracts upon medico-legal subjects were published by J. J. Allen, T. D. Mitchell, H. Howard, D. H. Storer, J. S. Sprague, J. S. Mulford, J. F. Townsend, and A. K. Taylor between 1840 and 1855. In the latter year appeared the first edition of the admirable work of Francis Wharton and Dr. Moreton Stille, the first American product of the collabora- tion of members of the two professions, now in its fourth edition. Between 1855 and 18GO no systematic treatises on legal ^ Tracts on Medical Jurispru- denes, etc., Phila., 1819. 2 Elements of Medical Jurispru- dence, 2 vols., 8vo, Albany, 1823; 12th ed., 2 vols., 8vo, Phila., 1868. A chapter on Infanticide by John B. Beck was added to the third edi- tion. This and later editions are by T. R. and J. B. Beck. ^ N. Y. Med. and Phys. Jour.. 1823, ii., 9-80. ^ An Essay on Medical Jurispru- dence, Phila., 1824. ^ Phila. J. M. and Phys. Sc., 1825. X., 86-46. ''Syllabus of Lectures, etc., Univ. of Va., 1827. An Introductory Address, etc., Phila., 1829, and Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on . . . Medical Jurisprudence in the Philadelphia Medical Institute [n. p., n. d.]. ^ A Catechism of Medical Juris- prudence, etc., Northampton, 1885. ^ Dean (A.) : Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, Albany, 1840 : Dean (A.) : Principles of Medical Ju- risprudence, Albany, 1854: Elwell (J. J.) : Medico-legal Treatise on Malpractice and Evidence, New York, 1860; 4th ed.. New York 1881. Medical Jurisprudence. Phila., 1855. 4th ed . edited by R Amory and E. S. Wood, 3 vols., Phila., 1884.