Volume 1

The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence / by the late Alfred Swaine Taylor.

  • Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880.
Date:
1910
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    EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. The Editor feels compelled for the present to allow the Preface to the fifth edition to be reprinted, inasmuch as it marks the commence- ment of his regime, and explains fully the changes he introduced. The fact that the edition has been sold out in little over half the time of the average of the earlier editions is naturally a very great satis- faction to all concerned, and would seem to show that Taylor in the new guise has been appreciated by those for whom it is published notwithstanding the serious criticisms that the new departure called forth. The chief changes introduced into the sixth edition are a further reduction in the number of woodcuts, leaving still more room for letterpress without increase of bulk, some reduction in the space occupied by the criminal aspects of wounding, and a considerable reduction in the pages devoted to Lunacy. These omissions have been counterbalanced by large additions to the discussion on the legal relationships of Ansestbesia and to that on Life Assurance rendered necessary by the prominent position which actions under the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1906 are now assuming in legal medicine. The last five years have witnessed very considerable development in that side of medical science and practice which is concerned with the public as opposed to the private application of medical experience. The Children's Act of 1909, the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, medical inspection under the Aliens Act of 1905, medical inspection of school-children under the Education Act of 1907, are illustrations of work accomplished by Parliament in this direction, while the Koyal Commission on Divorce Law and the Departmental Committee on Deaths under Anaesthesia and Coroners' Law in General are illustrations of work that will no doubt in the very near future lead to parliamentary action. The development thus foreshadowed is likely