The first German work of any authority is that of _John Bohn_, published in 1689, and entitled “_De Renunciatione Vulnerum_,” in which the author attempts to shew what wounds are necessarily fatal. In 1704, the same Professor presented to the profession a forensic work of greater range, for the purpose of giving rules for the conduct of physicians in attending the sick, and in delivering evidence before a court of judicature; it is entitled “_De Officio Medici, duplici, clinico et forensi_.” At about, or rather previous to the publication of this latter work, the celebrated Pandects of _Valentini_ appeared, which form a compendious retrospect of the opinions and decisions of preceding writers on Juridical Medicine. In his preface _Valentini_ endeavours to enforce the necessity of cultivating this branch of Medical Science; and although more than a hundred and twenty years have elapsed, how aptly will his rebuke apply to the medical witnesses of the present age—“_Evenit sæpe ut etiam illi qui magno Archiatrorum Practicorumque felicissimorum titulo superbiunt, in publicis hujuscemodi occasionibus facultatibus, ut Mus in pice, hæreant, ineptisque relationibus facultatibus Academicis non tantum risum moveant, sed et omnem, qua prius gaudebant estimationem protinus amittant._” This was followed by the works of _Kannegeiser_, and of _Frederic Boerner_, medical professor of Wirtemburg, on various subjects connected with Legal Medicine. The system of _Alberti_ of Halle, in six volumes quarto, appeared in 1725. Amongst the numerous questions elucidated by this laborious author, we may particularize those relating to conception and utero-gestation; and the reader will perceive that we have frequently availed ourselves of his opinion upon these points. Nearly cotemporary with _Alberti_, were _Zittman_, _Richter_, and _Teichmeyer_, from whose writings we have also had frequent occasion to extract some valuable observations. In 1730 the progress of Medical Jurisprudence was very considerably advanced by the publication of the argumentative work of _Storck_, in which the utility of medical knowledge in assisting the operation of the laws, is very ably and warmly advocated. The _Anthropologia Forensis_ of _Hebenstreit_, from which we have so frequently derived useful information, did not appear until 1753, and was followed by the _Institutes of Ludwig_, and the _Elements of Fazellius_. In 1781, _Plenck_[24] published his Elementary work on Forensic Medicine and Surgery; and in the following year the first volume of _Haller_’s[25] celebrated Lectures on Juridical Medicine, in the execution of which he takes the Institutes of _Teichmeyer_ as his text, correcting his errors, and amplifying his opinions. This work was subsequently completed in three volumes. In 1784, _Daniel_, by the title of his work[26] published at Halle, first introduced the term of STATE MEDICINE, as expressive of that branch of medical science of which we are now treating. The annals