Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Text-Book on Medical Jurisprudence, for Medical and Law Colleges
The present work on Medical Jurisprudence is the outgrowth of a long-felt necessity in Medical and Law Colleges for a more condensed, and yet explicit and complete, form of what is required In a text-book in Colleges. The several excellent treat ises, as those of Taylor, Beck, etc., are entirely too cumbrous and expensive for such work.
The author of the present work has studied much as to how this desideratum might be supplied, and has arrived at two well attested points: First, a great improvement in gaining space may be effected in curtailing citations of cases in illustration and court precedents. Of these, the two-volume work of Tidy has, in several instances, as many as 82, 86, and in one even as many as 137 citations, though in this latter several points are included; while Taylor and Beck are nearly as profuse in citations, thus making the work of the one 933 and the other 1413 pages of close print. This bulkiness ruins these works for use as college text-books, and gives them their place only in the libraries of the law and medical practitioners as reference books. One-half dozen citations of cases in illustration and of court precedents are abundantly sufficieht for any case. The other point made is in matter Of details: these must never be prolix in a college text book - the whole must be put into small compass.
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