Transcriber’s Note When italics were used in the original book, the corresponding text has been surrounded by _underscores_. Some corrections have been made to the printed text. These are listed in a second transcriber’s note at the end of the text. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. --------------------- BY J. A. PARIS, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; AND J. S. M. FONBLANQUE, ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW. -------------------------------------------------- “Hæc est illa amica Imperantiam atque Medentium conspiratio, qua effectum est, ut aliquo veluti connubio Medicina ac Jurisprudentia inter se jungerentur.” _Hebenstreit Anthropolog: Forens:_ -------------------------------------------------- IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. --------------------- LONDON: PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY W. PHILLIPS, GEORGE YARD, LOMBARD STREET; SOLD ALSO BY T. & G. UNDERWOOD, AND S. HIGHLEY, FLEET STREET; AND W. & C. TAIT, EDINBURGH. 1823. Medical Jurisprudence. PART III _continued_. 3. _Of Homicide generally._—4. _Of Real and Apparent Death._—5. _Of the Physiological Causes, and Phenomena of Sudden Death._—6. _Of Syncope._—7. _Of Suffocation, by Drowning, Hanging, and other causes._—8. _Death by exposure to Cold—Heat—Lightning—Starvation._—9. _Application of the Physiological Facts established in the preceding chapters, to the general treatment of Asphyxia._—10. _Of the Coroner’s Inquest._—11. _Suicide._—12. _Of Murder generally—by Wounding or Blows—by Poisoning._—13. _Of Poisons, Chemically, Physiologically, and Pathologically considered._—14. _Of Homicide, by Misadventure or Accident._—15. _A Synopsis of the Objects of Inquiry in Cases of sudden and mysterious Sickness and Death,—Commentary thereon, including practical rules for Dissection._—16. _Abortion and Infanticide—with Physiological Illustrations._—17. _Of Criminal Responsibility, and Pleas in bar of Execution._—18. _Of Punishments._—19. _Postscript._ 3. OF HOMICIDE GENERALLY.