An Epitome of Juridical or Forensic Medicine; for the Use of Medical Men, Coroners, and Barristers

Juridical Medicine and Medical Police. The objects of both are alike dignified and comprehensive. They regard the preservation and welfare of civilized man. Medical Police is principally occupied in exploring the means whereby the public health may be preserved and population encouraged, or in illustrating their application. Juridical Medicine consists in applying the precepts and experience of medicine and the accessory sciences to the solution of dubious questions in the practice of legislation. Hence it embraces the conditions of health and derangement in the human ceconomy, the causes and phaenomena of injury and death. In fact, all the functions of mind and body, and their lesions, physically considered, come within the sphere of its cognizance. The character, the life, and fortune of individuals, are frequently implicated in its decisions.