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MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE.
BY
J. A. PARIS, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS;
AND
J. S. M. FONBLANQUE, Esq.
BARRISTER AT LAW.
“Hæc est illa amica Imperantiam atque Medentium conspiratio, qua effectum est, ut aliquo veluti connubio Medicina ac Jurisprudentia inter se jungerentur.”
Hebenstreit Anthropolog: Forens:
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY W. PHILLIPS, GEORGE YARD, LOMBARD STREET;
SOLD ALSO BY T. & G. UNDERWOOD, AND S. HIGHLEY, FLEET STREET;
AND W. & C. TAIT, EDINBURGH.
1823.
Medical Jurisprudence.
PART III continued.
[3. Of Homicide generally.]—[ 4. Of Real and Apparent Death.]—[ 5. Of the Physiological Causes, and Phenomena of Sudden Death.]—[ 6. Of Syncope.]—[ 7. Of Suffocation, by Drowning, Hanging, and other causes.]—[ 8. Death by exposure to Cold—Heat—Lightning—Starvation.]—[ 9. Application of the Physiological Facts established in the preceding chapters, to the general treatment of Asphyxia.]—[ 10. Of the Coroner’s Inquest.]—[ 11. Suicide.]—[ 12. Of Murder generally—by Wounding or Blows—by Poisoning.]—[ 13. Of Poisons, Chemically, Physiologically, and Pathologically considered.]—[ 14. Of Homicide, by Misadventure or Accident.]—15. A Synopsis of the Objects of Inquiry in Cases of sudden and mysterious Sickness and Death,—Commentary thereon, including practical rules for Dissection.—16. Abortion and Infanticide—with Physiological Illustrations.—17. Of Criminal Responsibility, and Pleas in bar of Execution.—18. Of Punishments.—19. Postscript.