Remarks on medical jurisprudence; intended for the general information of juries and young surgeons / [William Dease].
- William Dease
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on medical jurisprudence; intended for the general information of juries and young surgeons / [William Dease]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 3 ] and feldom or never to be met with in the country; from this defeft many dreadful miftakeshave been committed, to the fcan- dal of the profeffion, arid irretrievable in- jury of the perlbn accufed. Th ere are no fituations in which the ge- neral malignity of popular clamour is more confpicuous than in thofe of fuppoled mur- der: no fooner is a perfon fufpe&ed, than the rumour of it rapidly fpreads, and as it flies exaggerates every circumftance that may tend to criminate the unhappy culprit. To young praftitioners thole are efteemed favourable occafions for difplaying their medical difcrimination and attrafting pub- lic attention: Opinions are haftily promul- gated, generally contradi&ory, often ab- furd, and frequently grounded on fuppo- fitious fa fits. The confequence is, that the accufed is publickly condemned before he is juridically tried, and falls at laft, per- haps an innocent vifitim to popular preju- dice. I have on many occafionsbeen prefent at inquefts where the attending furgeon, unufed to dilfefition, did not even know the method of expoiing to view the different cavities of the body; and it may readily be conceh ed how little capable he mull have been to decide on fo important a point. Yet](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20443973_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
