Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)

Name: Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)
Author: Paris, John Ayrton

Paris, John Ayrton

Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain

I. Are all epidemic Fevers contagious?                              115

   II. Does the matter of contagion require the aid of a
     certain state of the air (“Pestilential constitution of
     the Atmosphere”) to give effect to its powers and
     propagation; and to what causes are the decline and
     cessation of a contagious pestilence to be attributed?            120

   III. Can filth and animal putrefaction generate contagion?          122

   IV. Can a fever produced by fatigue, unwholesome food, &c.
     be rendered contagious in its career by animal filth,
     impure air, &c.?                                                  126

 Medical Police                                                        138

 Bills of Mortality                                                    143

                                 PART II.

 Introduction                                                          151

 Of Medical Evidence generally                                         153

 Of Marriage                                                           168

 Of Divorce or Nullity                                                 176

 Various questions connected with the foregoing subjects,
   elucidated by Physiological remarks                                 179

   I. Of Ages, especially that of puberty                              179

   II. Of Impotence and Sterility                                      197

     1. Of Impotence                                                   197

       1. Organic Causes of Impotence                                  197

         In Males                                                      197

         In Females                                                    206

       2. Functional causes of Impotence                               208

       3. Moral causes of Impotence                                    210

     2. Of Sterility                                                   212

       1. Organic causes                                               212

       2. Functional causes                                            212

   III. Of the Legitimacy of Children                                  215

 Supposititious Children                                               219

 Tenant to the Courtesey                                               223

 Of Monsters and Hermaphrodites legally considered                     227

 Physiological illustrations connected with the foregoing
   subjects                                                            230

   Of Conception and Utero-gestation                                   230

   Of Parturition or Delivery                                          241

     1. Whether a woman can be delivered during a state of
       insensibility, and remain unconscious of the event?             243

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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)

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