Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)

Chapter 24: PART II.

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A comprehensive handbook that defines medical jurisprudence and divides it into forensic medicine and medical police, explaining how medical knowledge applies to legal proceedings and public health policy. It treats institutional roles (physicians, surgeons, apothecaries) and practitioner liabilities, then addresses public health topics such as burial, quarantine, contagion, and mortality statistics. The forensic section covers medical evidence in cases of marriage, legitimacy, impotence, sterility, and childbirth, with physiological illustrations on conception, gestation, delivery, and the medical signs used to determine recent parturition and related medico-legal questions.

PART II.

Medical Jurisprudence.

PART II.

Introduction—1. Of Medical Evidence generally—2. Of Marriage and Divorce—Various Questions connected with the foregoing subjects elucidated by Physiological Researches—3. Of Legitimacy—Suppositious Children—Tenant by the Courtesy—Monsters—Hermaphrodites—Physiological Illustrations—4. Of Idiots and Lunatics—Medical and Physiological Illustrations—5. Of Nuisances, legally, medically, and chemically considered—6. Of Impositions—7. Of Life Insurance and Survivorship.