Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)
by J. S. M. Fonblanque John Ayrton Paris
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Chapters (567)
- MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- ERRATA. VOL. I.
- VOL. II.
- VOL. III.
- INTRODUCTION.
- ROYAL LETTER.
- PART I.
- 1. OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.
- OF THE POWERS OF THE COLLEGE.
- 2. OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.
- 3. OF THE SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES.[120]
- 4 OF THE EXEMPTIONS AND LIABILITIES OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
- OF ACTIONS BY MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
- OF ACTIONS AGAINST MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
- MIDWIFERY.
- OF THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
- 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.?
- MEDICAL POLICE.
- BILLS OF MORTALITY.
- PART II.
- INTRODUCTION.
- OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE GENERALLY.
- OF MARRIAGE.
- OF DIVORCE OR NULLITY.
- 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.
- SUPPOSITITIOUS CHILDREN.
- TENANT TO THE COURTESEY.
- Of Monsters and Hermaphrodites, legally considered.
- 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?
- OF EXTRA-UTERINE CONCEPTION.
- OF HERMAPHRODITES.
- OF IDIOTS AND LUNATICS.
- LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
- 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?
- OF NUISANCES, LEGALLY, MEDICALLY, AND CHEMICALLY CONSIDERED.
- OF IMPOSITIONS.
- Feigned, or Simulated Diseases.
- OF THE ADULTERATION OF FOOD.
- POLICY OF INSURANCE ON LIVES.
- SURVIVORSHIP.
- PART III.
- INTRODUCTION.
- ARSON.
- HUMAN COMBUSTION.
- 2. RAPE.
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