MEDICAL JITRISPRIIDENCE. That science which aPplies the principles and prac tice of medicine to the elucidation and settle ment of doubtful questions which arise in courts of laws.
2. These questions are properly embraced in five different classes : The first includes questions arising out of the relations of sex : as, impotence and sterility, hermaphroditism, rape, pregnancy, legitimacy, delivery.
The second, injuries inflicted upon the living organization : as, infanticide, wounds, poisons, persons found dead.
The third, those arising out of disqualify ing diseases : as, the different forms of mental alienation.
The fourth, those arising out of deceptive practices: as, feigned diseases.
The fifth is made up of miscellaneous questions : as, age, identity, presumption of seniorship, life assurance, and medical evi dence.
3. Independent of works on several of the particular subjects above mentioned, the fol lowing are those, English and American, which can be the most profitably consulted: Male's Medical Jurisprudence, 1 vol.
Smith, Dr. John Gordon, Principles of Fo rensic Medicine, 1 vol.
Paris & Fonblanque's Medical Jurisprudence, 3 vols.
Chitty's Medical Jurisprudence, 1 vol. Ryan's Medical Jurisprudence, 1 vol. Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence, 1 vol. Guy's Principles of Forensic Medicine, 1 vol.
Dean's Principles of Medical Jurisprudence, 1 vol.
Beck's Elements of Medical Jurisprudence, 2 vols.
'Wharton & Stille's Medical Jurisprudence, 1 vol.
Ray's Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity, 1 vol.
Elwell's Malpractice and Medical Evidence, 1 vol.
The French writers are numerous : Briand, Messy, Esquirol, Georget, Falret, Trebuchet, Marc, and others, have written treatises or published papers on this subject ; the learned Fodere published a work entitled " Les Lois ealairees par les Sciences physiques, ou Traite de Medecine legale et d'Hygiene publique ;" the " Annale d'Hygiene et de Medecine le gate" is one of the most valued works on this subject. Among the Germans may be found Rose's Manual on Medico-Legal Dis section, Metzger's Principles of Legal Medi cine, and others. The reader is referred for a list of authors and their work% on Medical Jurisprudence to Dupin, Profession d'Avocat, tom. ii. p. 343, art. 1617 to 1636 bis. For a history of the rise and progress of Medical Jurisprudence, see Traill, Med. Jur. 13. A box contain ing an assortment of medicines.
Statutory provisions in the United States require all vessels above a certain size to keep a medicine-chest. 1 Story, U. S. Laws, 106 : 2 id. 971.