Charles Coppens

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I. INTRODUCTORY THE FOUNDATION OF JURISPRUDENCE.

LECTURE II. CRANIOTOMY.

LECTURE III. ABORTION.

LECTURE IV. VIEWS OF SCIENTISTS AND SCIOLISTS.

LECTURE V. VENEREAL EXCESSES.

LECTURE VI. THE PHYSICIAN'S PROFESSIONAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES.

LECTURE VII. THE NATURE OF INSANITY.

LECTURE VIII. THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF INSANITY.

LECTURE IX. HYPNOTISM AND THE BORDER-LAND OF SCIENCE.

In Lecture I, there are paragraphs numbered 1 to 8 but omitting 4. This is as in the original, as is the inconsistent hyphenation of the words “lawgiver” and “twofold”. In two instances, errors of punctuation have been corrected, and in one case obscured words have been guessed. These places are on pages 56, 76 and 111, marked like this.

MORAL PRINCIPLES AND MEDICAL PRACTICE,
The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence.

by

Rev. CHARLES COPPENS, S.J.,

Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the John A. Creighton Medical College, Omaha, Neb., author of Text-Books on Metaphysics, Ethics, Oratory, and Rhetoric.

NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO:
BENZIGER BROTHERS,
Printers to the Holy Apostolic See.

TO

Mr. JOHN A. CREIGHTON,

THE FOUNDER OF THIS MEDICAL COLLEGE
AND OF
ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL,
AS
A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF HONOR
FOR
HIS ENLIGHTENED PATRONAGE OF LEARNING
AND
HIS CHRISTIAN CHARITY TOWARDS HIS FELLOW-MEN,
THIS VOLUME
IS
RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

Permissu Superiorum.

COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY BENZIGER BROTHERS.