Aids to forensic medicine and toxicology / by W. Douglas Hemming.

  • Hemming, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1848-1881.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Aids to forensic medicine and toxicology / by W. Douglas Hemming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on conception. Should an egg escape into the uterus, it may become impregnated a month or so after a pre- vious conception. XV.—INHERITANCE. In order to inherit, the child must be born alive ; must be born during the lifetime of the mother; must be born capable of inheriting, that is to say, monsters are incapable of inheriting. There is a mode of in- heritance called tenancy by the courtesy, as follows: When a man marries a woman seised of an estate of inheritance, and has, by her, issue born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate; in this case he shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for his life as tenant by the courtesy of England. The meaning of the words '' born alive in this instance is not the same as in cases of infanticide—any kind of motion being held as evidence of live birth in questions of tenancy by courtesy. XVI—FEIGNED DISEASES. We have not space here to give a long list of feigned diseases, nor to describe all the methods which have been employed to aid deception. The following hints, however, may be useful to a medical man when called to what he believes to be a case of malingering :—Do not be satisfied with one visit only, but go again and enter unannounced; see that the patient is watched between the visits; examine each organ separately, compare its condition with the statement of the patient, and note any discrepancies between his account of his