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 241
1. Whether a woman can be delivered during a state of
insensibility, and remain unconscious of the event? 243
2. How far the term of Utero-gestation can be shortened,
to be compatible with the life (viabilité) of the
offspring? 243
3. Whether to any, and to what probable extent, the
natural term of Utero-gestation can be protracted? 245
4. What is the value of those signs by which we seek to
establish the fact of a recent delivery? 249
5. Are there any, and what diseases, whose effects may
be mistaken for traces of a recent delivery? 254
6. Can we determine by any signs whether a woman has
ever borne a child, although at a period remote from that
of the examination? 256
7. What are the earliest and latest periods of life, at
which women are capable of child-bearing? 256
8. What is the possible number of children that can be
produced at one birth? 259
9. Is super-fœtation possible, and under what
circumstances, and at what period of gestation can a
second conception take place? 260
10. What are the causes of Abortion 269
11. Under what circumstances, and by what means, is it
morally, legally, and medically proper, to induce
premature labour? 271
12. What circumstances will justify the Cæsarean
operation, and of what value is the section of the
Symphysis Pubis, or Sigaultian operation? 274
Of Extra-uterine Conception 281
Of Hermaphrodites 283
Of Idiots and Lunatics 289
Of Lunatic Asylums 304
Medical and Physiological Illustrations of Insanity 307
1. Whether the person is actually insane, and if so, what
are the proofs of his derangement? 317
2. Whether the proofs are of such a nature as to suffer
the individual, with propriety, to retain his liberty, and
enjoy his property? 321
3. Whether there has been any lucid interval, and of what
duration? 322
4. Whether there is any probable chance of recovery; and
in case of convalescence, whether the cure is likely to be
permanent? 323
Of Nuisances, legally, medically, and chemically considered 330
1. Of those manufactories, during whose operation gaseous
effluvia, the products of _fermentation_, or
_putrefaction_, escape into the atmosphere, and are either
noxious from their effects on animals, or insufferable
from the noisomeness of their smell. 330
2. Of those in which, _by the action of fire_, various
noxious principles are evolved. 330
3. Of those which yield waste liquids that poison the
neighbouring springs and streams. 330
4. Of those trades, whose pursuit is necessarily
accompanied with great noise. 330
Of Impositions 355
Feigned or Simulated diseases 355
Insanity 359
Somnolency 359
Syncope 360
Epilepsy 361
Hysteria 362
Shaking Palsy 362
Fever 364
Dropsy 364
Jaundice 365
Hæmophthysis 365
Vomiting of Blood 365
Vomiting of Urine 365
Bloody Urine 365
Incontinence of Urine 366
Gravel and Stone 366
Alvine Concretions 367
Abstinence from Food 368
Deafness and Dumbness 370
Blindness 371
Ophthalmia 372
Ulcers, &c. 372
Hernia 373
Of the Adulteration of Food 374
Bread 375
Beer 377
Milk 378
Policy of Insurance on Lives 381
Survivorship 388