A manual of medical jurisprudence : compiled from the best medical and legal works: being an analysis of a course of lectures on forensic medicine, annually delivered in London / By Michael Ryan.

  • Ryan, Michael, 1800-1840.
Date:
1832
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Just published by Carey and Lea, in one octavo, A MEMOIR OF SEBASTIAN CABOT: WITH A REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF MARITIME DISCOVERY, ILLUSTRATED BY DOCUMENTS FROM THE ROLLS NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. Notices. Put forth in the most unpretending- manner, and without a name, this wouk is of paramount importance to the subjects of which it treats.—Literary Gazette. Will it not, says the author, with just astonishment, be deemed almost incre- dible that the very instrument in the Records of England which recites the great discovery and. plainly contemplates a scheme of colonization should, up to this moment, have been treated by her own writers as that which first gave permission to go forth and explore?—lb. We must return to investigate several collateral matters which we think deserving of more space than we can this week bestow. Meanwhile we recommend the work as one of great value and interest.—lb. The general reader, as well as the navigator and the curious, will derive plea- sure and information from this well written production.—Courier. A specimen of honest inquiry. It is quite frightful to think of the number of the inaccuracies it exposes; we shall cease to have confidence in books. Every sincere inquirer after historical accuracy oug-ht to purchase the book as a curiosity; more false assertions and inaccurate statements were never exposed in the same compass. It has given us a lesson we shall never forget, and hope to profit by.— Spectator. t* At length, however, a writer has come forward to do tardy but effectual jus- tice to the memory of Sebastian Cabot. In a work which has just appeared, entitled ' A Memoir, Sec' the clouds of misrepresentation have been completely dispelled, and his claims to the gratitude of his countrymen, and the admiration of posterity, are placed upon a firm and lasting basis.—Times. Attracted, at length, in his declining days, by the irresistible force of the amor patrise, he came home to his native land. Edward VI. settled a pension on him, and appointed him as General Supervisor of the Maritime Concerns of the Country. A large portion of this volume is dedicated to a detail of the useful and successful efforts which he made, while in that situation, to extend the commerce and establish the maritime greatness of England.—lb. We cannot part with this able and interesting vol- ume without again recommending it to the attention of the public.—lb. It is delightful to see so much of the darkness which overspread that great navigator's discoveries now rolled away. The account of his death is very affect- ing.—Literary Gazette, second notice. It is an admirable companion to the ' History of Columbus' which has recently been published, and the general reader, as well as the navigator and the curious in geography, will derive pleasure and information from this production.— National Gazette. The work is one of laborious research, and contains a vast body of information, much of which is original, recently obtained from the Rolls, and now first pub- lished. Cabot was a Venetian by birth; but was removed by his father to England at an early age. The author of the work before us—republished in a handsome octavo by Carey and Lea—very satisfactorily establishes the long questioned fact that he was the discoverer of this part of the continent.—Commercial Advertiser.