Syllabus of lectures on medical jurisprudence delivered in University College, London / [Anthony Todd Thomson].

  • Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849
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[1839]
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Credit: Syllabus of lectures on medical jurisprudence delivered in University College, London / [Anthony Todd Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. The subject introduced:—its importance;-—the qualifi- cations requisite to understand its various departments. GENERAL DIVISION OF THE COURSE. I. —Evidence.—Examination in chief, cross-examination, re-examination—leading questions—references to memoran- da—registers of hospitals—presumptive evidence-—hearsay evidence—professional confidence—privilege from not an- swering, in case of professional attendance at duels, &c.— professional opinion—experience, medical writers — com- plaints made by patients—confessions—dying declarations— demeanour of medical witnesses. II. —Considerations connected loith llie recognitmi of ^ deaths at various periods after it has happened.—The appear- ances which are characteristic of the decomposition of the body when it is exposed to the air :—when it is disinterred after burial:—when taken from the water. ^ Method of opening a body, in medico-legal investigations. III. —Preparation and purity of reagents. IV. —Nature of the Courts in which penal inquiries are investigated. a. The Coroner's Court—its nature—the duties of the office of Coroner. h. The Criminal Courts. Y.—Inquiries connected with the results of crimes of a penal nature^ ivhich involve medico-legcd questions: 1. Sudden death from Poisoning. Definition of a poison—general mode in which poisons operate: causes modifying their operation:—sketch of the