In 1823, Dr. Theodric Romeyn Beck published at Albany the first edition of a treatise as admirable for scholarly elegance of diction as for profound scientific research. This remarkable work, _facile princeps_ among English works on legal medicine, has had twelve American and English editions, and has been translated into German and Swedish.[143] Papers upon medico-legal subjects or reports of lectures were published by J. W. Francis,[144] J. Webster,[145] R. E. Griffith,[146] R. Dunglison,[147] J. Bell,[148] and S. W. Williams[149] between 1823 and 1835. In 1840, Amos Dean, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the Albany Medical College, published a medico-legal work, followed by another in 1854, which with the later work of Elwell are the only treatises on forensic medicine upon the title-pages of which no physician’s name appears.[150] Numerous papers and tracts upon medico-legal subjects were published by J. J. Allen, T. D. Mitchell, H. Howard, D. H. Storer, J. S. Sprague, J. S. Mulford, J. F. Townsend, and A. K. Taylor between 1840 and 1855. In the latter year appeared the first edition of the admirable work of Francis Wharton and Dr. Moreton Stillé, the first American product of the collaboration of members of the two professions, now in its fourth edition.[151] Between 1855 and 1860 no systematic treatises on legal medicine were published, although the medical journals contained numerous articles bearing upon the subject. In 1860 the first edition of a treatise written from the legal aspect was published by J. J. Elwell.[152] In 1869 Dr. J. Ordronaux, recently deceased, widely known as a teacher of legal medicine and a graduate in law as well as in medicine, published a treatise which has been extensively used as a text-book.[153] At the present time the great number and variety of articles published in the medical and legal journals, bearing upon every branch of forensic medicine and of medical jurisprudence, and written for the most part by specialists, is evidence of the assiduity with which the science is cultivated.