Medical evidence in railway accidents / by John Charles Hall.

  • Hall, John Charles, 1816-1876.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Medical evidence in railway accidents / by John Charles Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. In obedience to the wishes of several leading Members of the Bar, the papers on Medical Evidence in Bailway Acci- dents, written for “ The British Medical Journal,” at the request of its Editor, are collected and published (with many additions) so as to afford a more ready means of reference. Consulted quite as frequently by plaintiffs seeking com- pensation for injuries sustained, as by Railway Companies which have to meet the claims made upon them, I can have no possible bias in favour either of the one or the other. My object has been to describe what I have seen in those who have been in railway collisions, and in those who have sus- tained like injuries from other causes. These sketches are, therefore, only valuable so far as they faithfully pourtray what has been seen at the bed-side; for they are neither more nor less than literal transcripts from the leaves of the note book of a practising physician of thirty years’ standing—of one anxious only to state facts, and not to establish a pet theory. My brethren of the Medical Profession will now have an opportunity of comparing notes, and of saying how far their readings of the Book of Nature coincide with my own. Surrey House, Sheffield, 1868. fet.