Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation, and Prevention

by W. Wynn Westcott

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A Social Science Treatise.

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SUICIDE
ITS
HISTORY, LITERATURE,
JURISPRUDENCE,
CAUSATION, AND PREVENTION.

BY

W. WYNN WESTCOTT, M.B. Lond.

DEPUTY CORONER FOR CENTRAL MIDDLESEX.

Joint Author of the
Extra Pharmacopœia.

LONDON:
H. K. LEWIS, 136, GOWER STREET, W.C.
1885.

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TO

GEORGE DANFORD THOMAS, Esq., M.D.,
CORONER FOR CENTRAL MIDDLESEX,

THIS VOLUME IS

DEDICATED

WITH MUCH RESPECT AND ESTEEM

BY

THE AUTHOR.

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