Forensic medicine and toxicology / by W. Bathurst Woodman ... and Charles Meymott Tidy ... With eight full-page lithographic plates and one hundred and fifteen other illustrations.

  • Woodman, W. Bathurst (William Bathurst), 1836-1877.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Forensic medicine and toxicology / by W. Bathurst Woodman ... and Charles Meymott Tidy ... With eight full-page lithographic plates and one hundred and fifteen other illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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    Vlll PREFACE. The authors desire to express to the Messrs. Churchill their thanks for the liberal manner in which they have met them in the matter of illustrations. As a matter of course the authors have made free use of the stand- ard works on legal medicine. To acknowledge at every point how much they have been indebted to the elaborate works of Alfred Swaine Taylor, Christison, Orfila, Tardieu, Beck, Casper, Guy, and Wormley, would have involved mentioning their names on almost every page. The titles of their works will be found in the Bibliography appended. The brevity of this list is compensated in some measure by frequent references in the text and in the footnotes. That unavoidable mistakes in so complicated a work will have crept in, notwithstanding every care to prevent them, the authors can- not for one moment doubt. They trust some excuse will be found in the fact that the Manual has been written amidst the demands of pro- fessional work. Lastly. They dedicate this book to the memory of their late col- league and former teacher, Dr. Letheby. During his life he had taken a deep interest in its progress, and had given permission for the work to be dedicated to him. He had, moreover, consented to write an introduction. And now he is gone, the authors sorrowfully dedi- cate it to his memory, not merely in recognition of his having been one of the greatest English authorities on its subject-matter, nor as an acknowledgment of numerous acts of personal kindness, but more particularly as his pupils, whose first lessons in Forensic Medicine were his lectures, and in testimony of that to which a long race of London Hospital students can bear record, his ever ready willingness to teach, as well as his rare aptitude in imparting the knowledge he himself possessed in so profound a degree. C. Meymott Tidy, 48 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square. W. Bathurst Woodman, 6 Christopher Street, Finsbury Square. March, 1877.