A medico-legal treatise on malpractice and medical evidence : comprising the elements of medical jurisprudence / by John J. Elwell.

  • Elwell, John J.
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1860
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    (CIRCULAR.) A Medico-Legal Treatise on MALPRACTICE and MEDICAL EVIDENCE, comprising the Elements of Medical Jurispru- dence. By John J. Elwell, M. D., Member of the Cleveland Bar, Prof, of Criminal and Medical Jurisprudence and Testamentary Law, in the Ohio State Law College, and Editor of The Western Law Monthly. Large 8vo. Stereotyped Edition, 600 pages—Price $5. John S. Voorhies, No. 20 Nassau St., New York. Alfred Elwell & Co., Cleveland, Ohio. From Prof C. R. Gilman, of New York. I shall wait with sincere interest the appearance of your proposed work. It is one of which the Medical profession are in great want. Extract from a Letter from Prof. Hamilton, of Buffalo, Sept. 22,1857. The book which you proposo to write will he valuable and interesting to the member of my own profession as well as yours. , From the Boston Monthly Law Reporter. Elwell on Malpractice and Medical Evidence.—This work is announced as nearly ready. It is by J. J. Elwell, who is one of the professors in the Ohio Stato and Union Law College, and one of the editors of a new magazine, called The Western Law Monthly. Its author has had practical experience in both the pr. fes-ions whose interests are touched upon in this work, having practiced Medicine for ten years before he donned the long robe.' We shall look for his work -with much interest. It is published by Mr. VoorhieSj iu New York, and is to resemble, in style, type, and paper, Drake on Attachments. From the Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter. John J. Elwell, M. D.. a member of the Cleveland, (Ohio), Bar, and one of the editors of the Western Law Monthly, published in that city, announces a Medico-Legal Treatise on Malpractice and Medical Evidence, constitut'ng the Elements nf Medical Jurisprudence. It is to be a large Svo work, price $5 00, and will soon be issued from the press of John S. Voorhies, of No. '/0 Nassau Street, New Yi rk. The subject i- of great interest to the physician, and especially to the surgeon, and if it is handled .vith ability, the work will be an important addition to the medical library. Of its merits we will speak at length when the work issues from the press. From The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Oct. 6. New Work on Legal Medicine.—A work on Malpractice and Medical Evi'ence, by Prof. J. J. Elwell, of Cleveland, Ohio, is nsv in the press. From the preface and an extract from the chapter on •' Malpractice in Fractures and Dislocati nj, printed in a late number of the Cleveland Medical Journal, we infer that the volume will be a valuable addition to the literature i f legal medicine, and, indeed, supply some deficiences which have always existed in that branch of science. The subject of malpractice is rarely mentioned in works on medical j urispru ence, ani much ignorance exists in regard to it, not only in the le^al profession, but in our own, especially in regard t > fractures We hardly know where to turn for information as to the amount of sh'rtening in cases <f simple fracture of the thigh Every surgeon knows that some shortening always remains after the bones are united, even though there be no f-videnc^ of it in the gait of the patient, yet we believe this fact is not stated in the books. Again, it is known that such a thing as a transverse fracture of the shaft of the femur never occurs, but no one would imagine it from reading the various treatises on surgery. T> Prof. Hamilton, of Buffalo, we are indebted for the first distinct emonstration of these 'acts, an i many others which have an important bear- ing on the subject of Malpractice. We doubt not thece points will be set in a clear light by Professor Elwell, in his forthc imingwork. Should he succeed in clearing up the difficul- ties of the legal bearings of malpractice :md medical ev dence, he will incur the lasting obligation of the professions of medicine and law. (From the Cleveland Medical Gazette, for February; Edited by Dr. Weber, Prof, of Surgery in Cleveland Medical College.) The author of this magnificient volume, being a member of the bar and in the active practice of the law, and constantly engaged in impor- tant cases of Malpractice in different parts of the State,—making we believe this branch of law rather a speciality, by giving to these cases n>ost of his time and attention,—is therefore admirably qualified to write a work upon the important subjects of Malpractice and Medical Evidence. His thorough and minute knowledge of Medicine, in all its departments