Category: Health & Medicine

Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1

THE terms FORENSIC MEDICINE, LEGAL MEDICINE, and MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE have heretofore been used interchangeably to apply to those branches of state medicine and of jurisprudence which have to deal with the applications of medical knowledge to the elucidation of questions of f...

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11. Act 1891, c. 26, s. 3).

If the council think fit, they may direct the registrar to restore any name or entry erased, without fee, or on payment of such fee not exceeding the regular fee as the council...

9. Act 1877-78, c. 918, s. 7, from obtaining new certificates.

BOARD OF EXAMINERS.—The State board of medical examiners is composed of nine practising physicians of known ability and integrity, graduates of medical schools of undoubted resp...

7. CHAPTER VI.

=Wilful Malpractice.=—The cases which fall within the first two divisions of this definition are such acts as render the medical man liable to punishment in a criminal prosecuti...

10. c. 90, is not to alter or affect the qualifications constituted by the

REVOCATION OF LICENSE.—The Society of Apothecaries may strike off from the list of licentiates of said society the name of any person who shall be convicted in England or Irelan...

12. Act 1892, c. 514.

[235] Gartside _v._ Conn. Mut. L. I. Co., 76 Mo., 446; said to be overruled by Groll _v._ Tower, 85 Mo., 249, in Squires _v._ City of Chillicothe, 89 Mo., 226; but followed in T...

6. CHAPTER V.

_Introductory—Distinction Between Expert Witnesses and Other Witnesses._—One of the most important positions that a medical man is called upon to assume by virtue of his profess...

1. VOLUME ONE

THE terms FORENSIC MEDICINE, LEGAL MEDICINE, and MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE have heretofore been used interchangeably to apply to those branches of state medicine and of jurisprudenc...

3. CHAPTER II.

_Now Generally Regulated by Statute._—In nearly all of the United States, as well as in England, France, Germany, and other civilized and intelligent communities, the legal righ...

5. CHAPTER IV.

_Liability to Pay for Services._—An important matter for physicians and surgeons is the question as to who is responsible, or liable to pay for their services. If there is an ex...

4. CHAPTER III.

_Legal Character of the Employment._—Whatever may have been the theories of the Roman civil law, and following it of the early English common law, as to the character of the emp...

8. c. 918); no certificates are granted except to persons presenting

Certificates must be recorded in the county of residence and the record indorsed thereon. A person removing to another county to practise must procure an indorsement to that eff...

2. CHAPTER I.

AT common law the right to administer drugs or medicines or to perform surgical operations was free to all. And such was the rule of the Roman civil law. But the importance of p...