Outlines of a course of lectures on medical jurisprudence / by Thomas Stewart Traill.

  • Traill, Thomas Stewart, 1781-1862.
Date:
1840
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    ledge were made by the smaller publications of Loewe, Kichter, Budseus, Troppanneger, Fritch, and Wolff, Her- mann, Clauder, Herzog, and Parmeon; which are chiefly valuable to those who may be called on to exercise the pro- fession in Germany. In the Bibliotheque Medicale of Ploucquet will be found the names of those who have de- dicated themselves to the illustration of particular branches of this extensive subject; and the ■' Collectio Opusculo- rum of Schlegel contains some of the best detached trea- tises of the first three-fourths of the last century, on the subject of wounds, poisoning, infanticide, utero-gestation, insanity, and the legal inspection of dead bodies. About the same time appeared the Anthropologia Forensis of Hebenstreit, the Specimina of Fursteneau, the In stitutiones of Ludwig, and the Elementa of Fazelius. The lectures of Haller belong to this same period, though they were not published till 1781-2. Towards the close of the last century the Germans were almost the only suc- cessful cultivators of Medical Jurisprudence. The Ele- menta of Plenck appeared in 1781, and the book is still considered a good introduction to the study. The Bi- bliothek of Daniel appeared in 1784; and in it we find the name of state medicine given to this branch of knowledge. Between 1790 and 1800, appeared the Conspectus of Sikora, the Handbuch of Loder, the System of Metz- ger, and the Entwurf of Miiller. During the last century little was done in Italy after the time of Bamazzini; and in France the subject had at- tracted little attention until the celebrated case of Ville- hlanche called forth the memoir of Louis on the period of utero-gestation, in which he attacked the pretended in- stances of protracted pregnancy with powerful arguments, which were seconded by Astruc and Bouvart, but vehe- mently opposed by Le Bas and Antoine Petit. This con- troversy gave rise to many able publications, in which