MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. That
science which applies the principles and practice of the different
branches of medicine to the elucidation of doubtful questions in courts
of justice. By some authors, it is used in a more extensive sense and
also comprehends Medical Police, or those medical precepts which may
prove useful to the legislature or the magistracy. Some authors, instead
of using the phrase medical jurisprudence, employ, to convey the same
idea, those of legal medicine, forensic medicine, or, as the Germans
have it, state medicine.
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The best American writers on this subject are Doctors T. R. Beck and J.
B. Beck, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence; Doctor Thomas Cooper;
Doctor James S. Stringham, who was the first individual to deliver a
course of lectures on medical jurisprudence, in this country; Doctor
Charles Caldwell. Among the British writers may be enumerated Doctor
John Gordon Smith; Doctor Male; Doctor Paris and Mr. Fonblanque, who
published a joint work; Mr. Chitty, and Dr. Ryan. The French writers are
numerous; Briand, Biessy, Esquirol, Georget, Falret, Trebuchet, Mare,
and others, have written treatises or published papers on this subject;
the learned Fodere published a work entitled "Les Lois eclairees par les
sciences physiques ou Traite de Medecine Legale et d'hygiene publique;"
the "Annale d'hygiene et de Medecine Legale," is one of the most valued
works on this subject. Among the Germans may be found Rose's Manual on
Medico Legal Dissection; Metzger's Principles of Legal Medicine, and
others. The reader is referred for a list of authors and their works on
Medical Jurisprudence, to Dupin, Profession d'Avocat, tom. ii., p. 343,
art. 1617 to 1636, bis. For a history of the rise and progress of
Medical Jurisprudence, see Traill, Med. Jur. 13.
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