Tracts on medical jurisprudence
Subtitle: including Farr's Elements of medical jurisprudence, Dease's Remarks on medical jurisprudence, Male's Epitome of juridical or forensic medicine, and Haslam's treatise on insanity.
Contributors: Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839.; Farr, Samuel, 1741-1795.
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Clark, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: Medical jurisprudence.; Insanity -- Jurisprudence.; Forensic Medicine.; Jurisprudence.; Mentally Ill Persons -- legislation & jurisprudence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"With a preface, notes, and a digest of the law relating to insanity and nuisance, to which is added an appendix containing Erskine's speech for James Hadfield, indicted for shooting at the King; an abstract of a report of the trial of Abraham Kessler, indicted for poisoning his wife with white arsenic and laudanum; and a memoir on the chromat of pot-ash, as a test for detecting arsenic, copper, and corrosive sublimate by Thomas Cooper, esq., read before the American Society, Sep. 18, 1818."
Compiled by Thomas Cooper.
Originally published: Philadelphia : James Webster, 1819.
Table of contents: title: Pregnancy; title: Parturition or child birth; title: Divorces; title: Rapes; title: Murder of infants; title: Homicide; title: Idiotism and insanity; title: Imposters; title: On the means of perserving the public health.