The subjects of conception and delivery, with the various questions to which they have given origin, have been very ably discussed by _M. Capuron_;[46] from whose work it will be perceived we have derived much satisfactory information. After the historical view which we have taken of the continental literature of the subject, we fear that the labours of our own countrymen, in this department of science, will suffer a disparaging comparison; and yet we trust that any temporary feeling of inferiority and humiliation thus excited, will easily yield to the just conception of the circumstances to which the neglect of the subject is to be attributed. Although numerous questions connected with objects of forensic inquiry had been discussed and illustrated in the various periodical journals of Great Britain, yet no work, professing to treat of Medical Jurisprudence, appeared previous to the small and imperfect production of _Dr. Farre_ in 1788, entitled “_Elements of Medical Jurisprudence_,”[47] and which was rather an abstract of a foreign work, than an original essay. The next in succession was a “_Treatise on Medical Police_,” by _Dr. Robertson_, in two volumes, published in 1808. In 1815 _Dr. Bartley_, of Bristol, presented us with “_A Treatise on Forensic Medicine_,” than which it is impossible to conceive any production more meagre or imperfect. _Dr. Male_[48] is undoubtedly entitled to the grateful notice of the medical historian, as the author of the first respectable English book on forensic medicine. The last, and by far the most comprehensive and instructive work that has appeared in this country, is by _Dr. Gordon Smith_, entitled “_The Principles of Forensic Medicine, systematically arranged, and applied to British Practice_.” London, 1821. In addition to the above writings, we may record the “_Medical Ethics_” of _Dr. Percival_; which, although not intended, nor indeed calculated for practical instruction, contains some interesting allusions to our subject. Nor must we omit to enumerate the several valuable monographs with which different English physicians have sought to advance the progress of medico-legal inquiry; as, for instance, the celebrated paper of _Dr. Hunter_, “_On the Uncertainty of the Signs of Murder in the case of Bastard Children_;” _Dr. Haslam’s_ intelligent and judicious essay “_On Medical Jurisprudence, as it relates to Insanity, according to the Law of England_;” and _Dr. Hutchinson’s_ laborious “_Dissertation on Infanticide_.”