Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)

About this eBook

Author

Fonblanque, J. S. M. (John Samuel Martin), 1787-1865

Credits

Produced by Sonya Schermann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

KD: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence: United Kingdom and Ireland

Subject

Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 63241

Release Date

September 19, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
2. 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
3. 3.ERRATA. VOL. I. — VOL. II. — VOL. III.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION.
5. 5.ROYAL LETTER.
6. 6.PART I.
7. 7.1. OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. — OF THE POWERS OF THE COLLEGE.
8. 8.2. OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.
9. 9.3. OF THE SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES. [120]
10. 10.4 OF THE EXEMPTIONS AND LIABILITIES OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
11. 11.OF ACTIONS BY MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
12. 12.OF ACTIONS AGAINST MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
13. 13.MIDWIFERY.
14. 14.OF THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
15. 15.OF QUARANTINE, LAZARETTOS, AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS OF PLAGUE POLICE. — I. Are all Epidemic Fevers contagious? — 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? — III. Can Filth and Animal Putrefaction generate Contagion? — IV. Can a Fever produced by fatigue, unwholsome food, &c. be rendered contagious in its career by animal filth, impure air, &c.?
16. 16.MEDICAL POLICE.
17. 17.BILLS OF MORTALITY.
18. 18.PART II.
19. 19.INTRODUCTION.
20. 20.OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE GENERALLY.
21. 21.OF MARRIAGE.
22. 22.OF DIVORCE OR NULLITY.
23. 23.VARIOUS QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE FOREGOING SUBJECTS, ELUCIDATED BY PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. — 1. OF AGES, ESPECIALLY THAT OF PUBERTY. — 2. OF IMPOTENCE AND STERILITY. — 1. IMPOTENCE. — 2. STERILITY. — 3. OF THE LEGITIMACY OF CHILDREN.
24. 24.SUPPOSITITIOUS CHILDREN.
25. 25.TENANT TO THE COURTESEY.
26. 26.Of Monsters and Hermaphrodites, legally considered.
27. 27.PHYSIOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS CONNECTED WITH THE FOREGOING SUBJECTS. — Of Conception and Utero-Gestation. — Of Parturition , or Delivery . — Q. 1. Whether a woman can be delivered during a state of insensibility, and remain unconscious of the event? — Q. 2. How far the term of Utero-gestation can be shortened, to be compatible with the life (viabilité) of the offspring. — Q. 3. Whether to any, and to what probable extent, the natural term of Utero-gestation can be protracted? — Q. 4. What is the value of those Signs by which we seek to establish the fact of a recent delivery? — Q. 5. Are there any, and what Diseases, whose effects may be mistaken for the traces of a recent delivery? — Q. 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? — Q. 7. What are the earliest and latest periods of life, at which women are capable of child-bearing? — Q. 8. What is the possible number of Children that can be produced at one birth? — Q. 9. Is Super-fœtation possible, and under what circumstances, and at what period of Gestation can a second conception take place? — Q. 10. What are the causes of Abortion? — Q. 11. Under what circumstances, and by what means, is it morally, legally, and medically proper, to induce premature labour? — Q. 12. What circumstances will justify the Cesarean Operation, and of what value is the section of the Symphysis Pubis, or Sigaultian operation?
28. 28.OF EXTRA-UTERINE CONCEPTION.
29. 29.OF HERMAPHRODITES.
30. 30.OF IDIOTS AND LUNATICS.
31. 31.LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
32. 32.MEDICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF INSANITY. — Q. 1. Whether the person be actually insane—and if so, what are the proofs of his derangement? — Q. 2. Whether the symptoms are of such a nature as to suffer the individual, with propriety, to retain his liberty, and enjoy his property? — Q. 3. Whether there has been any lucid interval, and of what duration? — Q. 4. Whether there is a probable chance of recovery; and in case of convalescence, whether the cure is likely to be permanent?
33. 33.OF NUISANCES, LEGALLY, MEDICALLY, AND CHEMICALLY CONSIDERED.
34. 34.OF IMPOSITIONS. — Feigned , or Simulated Diseases .
35. 35.OF THE ADULTERATION OF FOOD.
36. 36.POLICY OF INSURANCE ON LIVES.
37. 37.SURVIVORSHIP.
38. 38.INTRODUCTION.
39. 39.ARSON.
40. 40.HUMAN COMBUSTION.
41. 41.2. RAPE.
42. 42.Footnotes

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