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Footnotes
[1]. We have preferred this term, as best calculated to express, in the most comprehensive manner, the application of Medical Science to the purposes of the law. Different writers, however, upon this branch of knowledge, have employed various other terms for the same object, such as Legal, Judiciary, or Juridical Medicine; State Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Medical Police. The two latter terms, evidently cannot with propriety be considered synonimous with the former, for they are, strictly speaking, subordinate divisions. Some authors have objected to the term Medical Jurisprudence, as implying a knowledge of the laws relating to medical topics, rather than an acquaintance with the medical science necessary for the elucidation of legal subjects. As it is our peculiar object to unite the sciences, and to shew their mutual relevance, the title becomes most applicable to this, although it may have been improperly affixed to former works.
[2]. Chap. xiii. xiv.
[3]. So important was this act in the climates of Asia and Africa, that the Mahometan, if unable to obtain water in the Desert, was directed to cleanse his person by frictions with the sand.
[4]. See Mill’s History of British India.
[5]. Collection of Voyages, that contributed to the establishment of the East India Company. Vol. i. part i. p. 182.
[6]. Aristotle proposed the same means of checking the increase of population. Aristot. de Republica. lib. vii. c. 16.
[7]. Institutes of Menu. ch. iii. 6 to 10.