Medical jurisprudence / by J.A. Paris and J.S.M. Fonblanque.

Date:
1823
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    XI Renunciatione Vulnerumin which the author at-> tempts to shew what wounds are necessarily fatal. In 1704, the same Professor presented to the profes- sion a forensic work of greater range, for the purpose of giving rules for the conduct of physicians in at- tending the sick, and in delivering evidence before a court of judicature ; it is entitled u De Officio Medici, duplici, clinico et forensiF At about, or rather pre- vious to the publication of this latter work, the cele- brated Pandects of Valentini appeared, which form a compendious retrospect of the opinions and decisions of preceding writers on Juridical Medicine. In his preface Valentini endeavours to enforce the necessity of cultivating this branch of Medical Science ; and although more than a hundred and twenty years have elapsed, how aptly will his rebuke apply to the me- dical witnesses of the present age —u Evenit scepe ut etiam illi qui magno Archiatrorum Practicorunique felicissimorum titulo superbiunt, in publicis hujusce- modi occasionibus facultatibus, ut Mus in pice, hcere- tint, ineptisque relationibus facultatibus Academicis non tantum risurn move ant, sed et omnem, qua prius gaudebant estimationem protinus amittant.” This was followed by the works of Kannegeiser, and of Frederic Boer- ner, medical professor of Wirtemburg, on various subjects connected with Legal Medicine. The sys- tem of Alberti of Halle, in six volumes quarto, ap- peared in 1725. Amongst the numerous questions elucidated by this laborious author, we may particu- larize those relating to conception and utero-gesta- tion; and the reader will perceive that we have fre- quently availed ourselves of his opinion upon these points. Nearly cotemporary with Alberti, were Zitt- man, Richter, and Teichmeyer, from whose writings we have also had frequent occasion to extract some