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.
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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.
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“Hæc est illa amica Imperantium atque Medentium conspiratio, qua
effectum est, ut aliquo veluti connubio Medicina ac Jurisprudentia inter
se jungerentur.”
_Hebenstreit Anthropolog: Forens:_
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IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
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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.
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOHN EARL OF ELDON,
LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN;
AND TO
SIR HENRY HALFORD, BART.
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS;
THIS WORK
IS, WITH THEIR PERMISSION,
MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY
THE AUTHORS.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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