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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 Imperantium atque Medentium conspiratio, qua effectum est, ut aliquo veluti connubio Medicina ac Jurisprudentia inter se jungerentur.”
Hebenstreit Anthropolog: Forens:
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
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.
CONTENTS
OF THE
APPENDIX.
Statutes, [9 Hen. 5.]—[3 Hen. 8, c. 11.]—[5 Hen. 8, c. 6.]—[14 and 15 Hen. 8, c. 5], containing the Charter of the College of Physicians.—[32 Hen. 8, c. 40.]—[32 Hen. 8. c. 42].—[34 and 35 Hen. 8, c. 8].—[1 Mary, c. 9].—[6 and 7 Will. 3, c. 4.]—[Preamble of 10 Geo. 1, c. 20], (expired).—[18 Geo. 2, c. 15].—[55 Geo. 3, c. 194.]—[Charter of the Apothecaries.]—[Royal Letter to the College of Physicians], (Chas. 2.)—[Royal Letter to the Lord Mayor of London], (Chas. 2).—[College Questions], (1607) and opinions thereon.—[Dr. Bonham’s case.]—[Groenvelt v. Burwell.]—[William Rose’s case.]—[Dr. Stanger’s case.]—[Return to a Habeas Corpus], and copy of the Censor’s Warrant.—[Dr. Burgess’ case.]—[Dr. Winterton’s Letter to the College of Physicians.]—[Lilly’s Diploma from the Archbishop of Canterbury.]—[Order in Council] (1809).—[Rex v. Master and Wardens of the Company of Surgeons.]—[Midwife’s Oath.]—[Certificate concerning Midwives.]—[Statute 59 Geo. 3, c. 41.]—[14 Geo. 3, c. 49.]—[Report on the Plague] (1819).—[Chorley v. Bolcot.]—[Lipscombe v. Holmes.]—[Slater v. Baker and Stapleton.]—[Seare v. Prentice.]
[Severn v. Olive] (cost of experiments).—[Mr. Hargrave’s notes on the legal time for human birth.]
[Report of the College of Physicians on a case of murder], (Joseph Lane’s 1632).—[Case of Standsfield]; Report of the Surgeons of Edinburgh on the same; Report of the College of Physician’s (Edinb.) on the same.—[Extract from the medical evidence in the case of Spencer Cowper, Esq.]—[Extract from the evidence of Drs. Addington and Lewis in the case of Mary Blandy.]—[Extracts from the medical evidence in the case of Donellan].—[Extracts from the medical evidence in the case of Donnall.]—[Eugene Aram’s defence.]
Medical Jurisprudence.
PART III.
Introduction—1. Of Arson—Human Combustion.—2. Of Rape, with Physiological and Medical Illustrations.—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.
Medical Jurisprudence.
PART III continued.
[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.]