[21] “Hist. Nat.,” vii., 4.
[22] A. Gellius: “Noct. Att.,” 1. 3, c. 16: “requisitis veterum philosophorum et medicorum sententiis.” The word “veterum” seems to indicate that the emperor consulted books, not living physicians.
[23] “Medici non sunt proprie testes, sed majis est judicium quam testimonium.”
[24] For accounts of the medico-legal provisions of the Justinian enactments, see: G. A. v. d. Pfordten, “Beiträge z. Gesch. d. ger. Med. aus d. Justin. Rechtssam.,” Würzburg, 1838: M. F. Eller, Bull. Med. Leg. Soc. N. Y., 1879, i., 226-237; and Friedreich, Blt. f. ger. Anthr., Nürnberg, 1850, I., iii., 1-64; 1862, xiii., 188-215.
[25] See Mende: “Handb. d. ger. Med.,” Leipzig. 1819, i., 83-87.
[26] “Etablissements et Coûtumes, Assises et Arrêts de l’Echiquier de Normandie au xiii. Siècle,” A. J. Marnier, Par., 1839: “veue d’homme en langueur, veue de méfaits, veue d’homme occis et veue de femme despucelée.”
[27] “Ut peritorum judicio medicorum talis percussio asseveretur non fuisse letalis,” Mende, “Handb. d. ger. Med.,” i., 91.
[28] Hensschel, in “Janus,” Breslau, 1847, ii., 135.
[29] Assises de Jérusalem,” Beugnot, Paris, 1841-43, quoted by Ortolan, l.c., infra.
[30] Ortolan: “Débuts d. l. Méd. lég.,” Ann. d’Hyg., Par., 1872, 2 s., xxxviii., 361.