On medical evidence in our law courts : being an exposure of its present defects, &c., with a suggestion for its amendment / by James G. Davey.

  • Davey, James George, 1813-1895.
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[1862]
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Credit: On medical evidence in our law courts : being an exposure of its present defects, &c., with a suggestion for its amendment / by James G. Davey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    shall be held as sufficient at any time, either to prove or dis- prove insanity in the alleged lunatic. The author feels satisfied that the present anomalous relative position of law and medicine, i.e., of lawyers and doctors, must cease ; that the practice now adopted of obtaining the testimony of medical men in cases of suspected lunacy, as well as in criminal cases, is throughout objection- able, and fraught with much mischief ; that it is desirable for the sake of science, and not less for the honour of the medical profession, that, in all cases, of whatever kind^ involving in any degree a knowledge of the principles and practice of medicine and its collateral branches, a plain state- ment of all the facts should be drawn up and submitted to a MEDICAL ARBITRATION, and that then the various opinions of medical men would be found to approximate, and the medical chasms which now appear would be bridged over in an easy, graceful, and truthful manner.* .The present time is especially opportune to the ventilation of this question of medical evidence. North woods, near Bristol, March 14, 1862. * The above are quotations from the body of this Pamplilet