A MANUAL OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. BY ALFRED SWAINE TAYLOR, M.D., F.R.S. REVISED AND EDITED BY THOMAS STEVENSON, M. D. LOND., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London; Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence and on Chemistry at Guy's Hospital; Examiner in Forensic Medicine in the University of London; External Examiner in Forensic Medicine in the Victoria University; Official Analyst to the Home Office. TWELFTH AMERICAN, EDITED WITH CITATIONS AND ADDITIONS FROM THE TWELFTH ENGLISH EDITION. BY CLARK BELL, Esq., LL.D., President of the American International Medico-Legal Congress of 1889; President of the American International Medico-Legal Congress of 1893 (Chicago); President of the Medico-Legal Congress of 1895 (New York); Honorary Member of the Medico-Legal Society of France; of the Society of Mental Medicine of Belgium; Associate Member of the Société Médico-Psychologique of Paris; Corresponding Member of the Society of Psychiatry of St. Petersburg; of the Netherlands; of Lisbon, Portugal; of the Society of Freniatria of Italy; of the Belgian Society of Anthropology; and Ex-President of the Medico-Legal Society of New York. LEA BROTHERS & CO., NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA. 1897. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1897, by in the office of the Librarian of Congress. All rights reserved. PREFACE TO THE TWELFTH AMERICAN EDITION. PERHAPS the early demand for a new American edition of Taylor's classical MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE may in some measure be attributable to the new features added at the time of the preceding American revision. The work was then brought thoroughly to date, and the law and judicial decisions both in Great Britain and the United States were introduced, together with a tabulation of cases and a reference to authorities. These changes made the work more serviceable to all classes in the two professions which it joins, increasing its hold as a favorite text-book in schools of medicine and law, rendering it even more useful to physicians in practice, and lawyers in the preparation of briefs; and confirming its previous acceptance as an authority, by all English-speaking judicial tribunals. Since the issuance of the previous edition a strong impulse has been given to Forensic Medicine, by the International Congress of Medical Jurisprudence, by the Congress of Medical Jurisprudence of New York, 1895, and also by the special development of Medico-Legal Surgery in various societies. The present time, therefore, is most auspicious for the appearance of this new edition, and it is fortunate that the demand for it comes at a time when these important advances can be represented. The increasing frequency of damage cases renders this department of Medico-Legal Surgery of growing importance. The eleventh American edition included the admirable work with which Dr. Thomas Stevenson had enriched the twelfth English edition, and was a thorough revision of all previous American and English editions. This present issue aims to continue this work along the same lines to the present date. iii |