[41] “Con. cr. Car.,” art. 37.
[42] Ibid., art. 134.
[43] Ibid., arts. 135, 179, 219.
[44] “Non per quoslibet, nec per insipidos et imperitos, sed tantum per peritos ac doctos medicos aut chirurgos,” p. 245.
[45] “Praxis Rerum Criminalium,” Antw., 1554 (the dedicatory epistle is dated 1551), pp. 245-252, 223-228.
[46] Wildberg, “Bibl. Med.-for.,” Berl., 1819, Nos. 553, 554, 1,124, 1,125, 1,126, 1,304, 1,835, 1,836, 2,342, cites nine works earlier than 1575. These are, however, monographs on the period of gestation, witchcraft, fasting girls, drunkenness, and wounds of the head.
Works on toxicology were written at a much earlier date: the Θηριακά and Αλεξιφάρμᾶκα, of Nicander, ca. B.C. 135; θeπερὶ δηλητηρίων φαρμάκων, of Dioscorides, ca. A.D. 50; the treatises, “De Venenis,” of Petrus de Abbano (ca. A.D. 1250), first printed Mantua, 1472; of Arnoldus da Villanova (ca. A.D. 1300), first printed (sine loc. et an.) ca. 1470; of Santes de Ardoynis, Venice, 1492, and of F. Ponzetti, Venice, 1492, are among the earliest. Works on toxicology are not considered in this Introduction, the historical sketch of that science being reserved for a later volume.
[47] Ed. Malgaigne, 1840, t. iii., l. xxvii., pp. 651-658; ed. princ., Paris, 1575, fol., pp. 931-944. On the title-page of an earlier work, printed in 1562, Paré is referred to as “chirurgien ordinaire du Roi, et Juré à Paris.” Ploucquet, “Lib. Med. dig.,” Tüb., 1809, iv., 349, mentions a monograph by “Tygeon, Th.,” printed at Lyons, 1575.
[48] S. Pineau: “De notis Integritatis et Corruptionis Virginum,” Paris, 1598; A. Hotman: “De la Dissolution du Mariage par l’Impuissance,” etc., Paris, 1581; de la Corde, “Ergo Virgo ... lac in mammis habere potest,” Paris, 1580. Wildberg, l. c., Nos. 555, 1,308, 1,309, are not properly medico-legal.
[49] In his “De Vitiis Vocis,” etc., Frankf., 1597. He had previously published a treatise, “De morbis veneficis ac veneficiis,” Venet., 1595.