A manual of medical jurisprudence, compiled from the best medical and legal works : comprising, an account of I. The ethics of the medical profession, II. The charters and statutes relating to the faculty, and III. All medico-legal questions, with the latest decisions : being an analysis of a course of lectures on forensic medicine, annually delivered in London, and intended as a compendium for the use of barristers, solicitors, magistrates, coroners, and medical practitioners / by Michael Ryan.

  • Ryan, Michael, 1800-1840.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A manual of medical jurisprudence, compiled from the best medical and legal works : comprising, an account of I. The ethics of the medical profession, II. The charters and statutes relating to the faculty, and III. All medico-legal questions, with the latest decisions : being an analysis of a course of lectures on forensic medicine, annually delivered in London, and intended as a compendium for the use of barristers, solicitors, magistrates, coroners, and medical practitioners / by Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t 5 and this fact has been highly conducive to the discovery of their effects as -therapeutic agents. In confirmation of the validity of this position, I may observe that the direct para- lysis caused by opium when applied to muscular tissue, ex- plains its efficacy in spasmodic affections. The similar ef- fects of acetate of lead explain the efficacy of that medicine in dysentery; the stimulating-effects of nux vomica on the spinal cord and nerves, led to its employment in the va- rious forms of palsy, in which it has the best effects, ac- cording- to the testimony of Dr. Bardsley of Manchester, and others. It is unnecessary to multiply citations on this point, for it is universally admitted that we owe all our new and va- luable medicines to the science of toxicology. This science is now brought to a state of certainty, by the great research, the acute discrimination and the repeated observation of Pro- fessor Christison of Edinburgh, whose splendid work on the subject is an honour to the medical literature of the country, and will be esteemed a work of authority and reference It will assist in superseding the present absurd exclusion of re- ference to authorities, from the system of medical evidence in this part of the country. But an immense number of other departments as interesting as toxicology are included in state medicine, or as it is improperly called medical jurispru- dence. But first it is right to explain the difference between the terms State Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence The majority of writers apply the terms political medicine, state medicine, public medicine, public hygiene or police of health and medical police to the acts of a government, legisla- ture and magistracy, for the conservation of the public health profession6 ° relating t0 the Practice of the medical Medical jurisprudence, legal, forensic, juridical and iudici- ZLT T' 18 a SC1Te ^V Which raedicine its colia- teial branches are rendered subservient to the elucidation of various civil and criminal cases during judical inquiry Dr. Gordon Smith divides the subject into two divisions ■ €ou^Z^—; °r'the d^of ^e practitioner in ^^^iZ^^ <>ractitioner — TneTd^n^rTnntUnTClUdHeb0n divisi°nS in the term st^ istPdTti, S London University some confusion has ex- isted ln the minds of students in reference to the professorship