The principles of forensic medicine : systematically arranged, and applied to British practice / By John Gordon Smith.

  • Smith, John Gordon, 1792-1833.
Date:
1824
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    whole range of Political Medicine, although th'c title is confined to one of its branches : and there might be scope for enquiry how far even the real distinction among these has been observed, and whether they hav£ been sufficiently separated in the details to give clear conceptions of their individual bearings. In this work the law of the case is laid down with its medical bearings—a combination that may be of eminent importance and utility ; but which I con- sider unnecessary in order to produce a book that may be useful; because the juridical relations of these matters have been published over and over again, and are to be found in sources well known to the Jurisconsult, but which it must be rarely in the way of a medical practitioner to refer to, or concern himself with. I give this opinion, not as a criticism on the valuable production that has sug- gested it, but as a reason why I have presumed to labour, single-handed, in the same department. For both I conceive there is abundant room ; and I am unfeignedly gratified that the science has obtain- ed so important an acquisition, as well as to find that the learned medical author has in so many in- stances, where my opinions were not published without considerable diffidence, and even some ap- prehension, confirmed them by expressing similar views. It would be unjust, before taking leave of our wri- ters on Political Medicine, not to pay a well-merit- ed tribute of gratitude to the authors of numerous detached productions on particular subjects. The periodical journals contain many important articles upon almost every thing belonging to the depart- ment. No references that might here be made could possibly include the whole, and a selection might