The principles of forensic medicine, systematically arranged and applied to British practice / John Gordon Smith.

  • Smith, John Gordon, 1792-1833.
Date:
1827
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Credit: The principles of forensic medicine, systematically arranged and applied to British practice / John Gordon Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Crass I. Questions relating to the extinction of life. Crass II. Questions arising from sical nInMES: not involving a fatal issue. Crass III. Disqualifications for the discharge of offices, or the exercise of social functions. Crass IV. Miscellaneous questions. Under the first class we shall endeavour to com- prehend all cases of death, in which there may be question of violence, criminal interference, or any unnatural or unusual cause. The range of the second is necessarily limited ; the juridical relations, which formerly comprehended many interesting questions, being annulled by re- cent improvements in our criminal jurisprudence. The only important question now coming under this head being that of rape. Under the third, however, we shall have to review points of the deepest interest, many of them demand- - Ing attention on the part of those who are neither of the medical nor legal profession :— And the last will comprehend a few important topics which cannot, with strict propriety, be as- signed to any of the preceding classes.