Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Report of the Chirurgeons of Edinburgh on the same case

PART I.

	VOL. I.
Of the College of Physicians	1
Its powers and privileges	23
Of the College of Surgeons	54
Of the Society of Apothecaries	59
Of the exemptions and liabilities of Medical practitioners	72
Of actions by Medical practitioners	77
Of actions against Medical practitioners	80
Midwifery	82
Of the preservation of Public Health	85
Burial of the dead	92
Of Quarantine, Lazarettos, and other establishments of Plague Police	104

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	3. It is dissolved in various coloured liquids	272
4. It is mixed or combined with some medicinal body in a solid form	273
5. It is united with alimentary substances which have effected its decomposition	274
6. It is decomposed, and a part exists in intimate combination with the membranes of the alimentary canal	274
Red Oxide of Mercury	275
Red Precipitate	276
Other preparations of Mercury	276
Antimony	277
Emetic Tartar, Tartarized Antimony	279
Symptoms of poisoning by it	280
Antidotes	280
Physiological action of Emetic Tartar	282
Organic lesions discovered by dissection	283
Tests for the detection of Emetic Tartar	284
1. The poison is in a solid form	284
2. It is mixed with various alimentary substances	285
Copper	285
Oxide of Copper	287
Green Carbonate of Copper, Natural Verdegris	288
Verdegris	290
Blue Vitriol	291
Symptoms of poisoning by the Salts of Copper	291
Organic lesions discovered on dissection	291
Chemical detection of their presence	291
A. By their reduction to a metallic state	292
B. By the application of certain tests to their solutions	293
The suspected poison is mixed with alimentary substances	294
Tin, and its Muriates	295
Zinc	296
White Vitriol, Sulphate of Zinc	297
Symptoms of poisoning by it	297
Organic lesions	298
Chemical processes for its detection	297
Silver	299
Lunar Caustic, Nitrate of Silver	299
Chemical processes for its detection	300
The Concentrated Acids	301
Oil of Vitriol, Sulphuric Acid	302
Symptoms of poisoning by it	303
Organic lesions	304
Antidotes	304
Chemical processes for its detection	305
Nitric Acid	305
Symptoms of poisoning by it	306
Organic lesions	309
Chemical processes for its detection	312
Spirit of Salt, Muriatic Acid	313
Symptoms of poisoning by it	313
Chemical processes for its detection	314
Oxalic Acid	315
Symptoms of poisoning by it	316
Antidotes	316
Chemical tests for its detection	316
Boiling Water	316
Melted Lead	317
The Caustic Alkalies	318
Potass or Potash	319
Liquor PotassÆ	320
Chemical tests for its detection	320
Potassa Fusa, or Kali Causticum	321
Potassa eum Calce	321
Sub-carbonate of Potash, Pearl Ash	322
Symptoms of poisoning by any of the above	322
Preparations	322
Antidotes	323
Organic lesions	323
Soda	323
Ammonia and its Carbonate	323
Symptoms of poisoning by Ammonia	324
The Caustic Alkaline Earths	325
Quick Lime	325
Symptoms of poisoning by Lime	325
Organic lesions	326
Tests for its detection	326
Baryta, and its Salts	327
Symptoms of poisoning by Baryta	327
Physiological action of it	328
Antidotes	328
Chemical tests for its detection	329
Cantharides	330
Symptoms of poisoning by it	331
Organic lesions	332
Methods of detecting its presence	333
Phosphorus	333
Symptoms of poisoning by it	333
Mechanical Poisons, Powdered Glass, &c.	334
Class II. Astringent Poisons	336
Lead	336
Sugar of Lead, Plumbi super acetas	349
Goulard’s Extract, Liquor Plumbi sub-acetatis	350
White Lead, Sub-carbonate of Lead, Cerusse	350
Litharge, semi-vitrified Oxide of Lead	351
Red Lead, Minium	352
Symptoms of poisoning by the different preparations of Lead	353
By small and repeated doses	355
228
Report of the College of Physicians	229
Extract of the medical evidence in the case of Spencer Cowper, Esq. for the murder of Sarah Stout	230
Extract from the evidence of Doctor Anthony Addington, on the trial of Mary Blandy, at Oxford, 1752, for the murder of her father by Arsenic	236
Extracts from the evidence delivered on the trial of John Donellan, Esq. for the wilful murder, by poison, of Sir Theodosius Edward Allesley Boughton, Bart. at the Assizes of Warwick, March 30, 1781	243
Extracts from the evidence delivered on the trial of Robert Sawle Donnall, Surgeon and Apothecary, for the wilful murder, by poison, of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Downing, widow, at the Assizes at Launceston, March 31, 1817	277
The defence of Eugene Aram for the murder of Daniel Clarke	311

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