Medical jurisprudence / by Alfred S. Taylor ; edited with notes and additions by R. Egglesfield Griffith.

  • Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Medical jurisprudence / by Alfred S. Taylor ; edited with notes and additions by R. Egglesfield Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    EDITOR'S PREFACE. The high standing of Mr. Taylor as a Medical Jurist, and the excellence of his former publications, led us to expect much from the work, now pre- sented to the public; and although we are in possession of the valuable treatise of Dr. Beck, this does not preclude the want of a treatise like the one before us. Dr. Beck's work is too large and comprehensive for an elementary text book, and although it is of indispensable utility to the ad- vanced student, it is too much in detail for the tyro, added to which it con- tains many subjects, which, however interesting in themselves seldom if ever, become the subject of judicial investigation. The great merit of Mr. Taylor's work is its eminently practical character, for whilst the author has omitted or merely glanced at those questions on which the opinion or evidence of the medical witness is not required, it contains the most ample and clear expositions of those embraced in the true limits of Medical Jurisprudence. It is in fact, the best Manual of the science we have met with for a text book, and it may also be most bene- ficially referred to by the physician or lawyer, for all the important facts connected with the subjects on which it treats. In preparing it for use in this country, the text has undergone a thorough revision, and any inadvertencies or inaccuracies carefully corrected; no change, however, has been attempted in the language or opinions of the author, but where our own views differ from those of the author, they have been stated in a note. Considerable additions have been made, so as to include the laws and enactments of the different states on the several ques- tions discussed. These and all other additions are included between brackets [ ] and marked with the letter G.