The Proofs of Infanticide Considered: Including Dr. Hunter's Tract on Child Murder, With Illustrative Notes and a Summary of the Present State of Medico-legal Knowledge on That Subject - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1836. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... TO ANDREW AMOS, Esq. LATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LAW AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. IN THE LONDON UNIVERSITY. My Dear Sir, I Avail myself of your permission to inscribe this little work to you. It is to you, and your excellent lectures, that I am chiefly indebted for having had my attention first called to the subject of Legal Medicine: and I shall be exceedingly glad if this slight testimony of my respect and esteem, make it in any degree known to the Public how much I am, my dear Sir, Your very obliged and faithful servant, W. CUMMIN. 24, Great Rnssell Street, Bloomsbury, June 24, 1836. PREFACE. In the whole range of subjects on which medical men are called upon to give their evidence in courts of justice, there is, perhaps, not one more complicated or embarrassing than that of Infanticide: it receives little or no illustration from the routine of ordinary practice, and requires considerable previous knowledge and patient inquiry for its due investigation. An experience of some years in teaching Forensic Medicine, has, however, led me to believe that all the material points might be stated clearly and popularly within a moderate compass. The result of such a persuasion is the production of this little work. It may appear, perhaps, somewhat singular, that Dr. Hunter's tract should be placed in the foreground: but all who are in any degree acquainted with the practice of our Criminal Courts must know that it were a very questionable office to undertake to compose a treatise on the subject, with any pretensions to utility, without referring frequently to the most influential and popular tract on Child-murder hitherto produced in this country. The judges quote it with implicit faith in its perfection: the bar study it, and cross-examine...

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