Woodman Bathurst W., Tidy Charles M. Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

London: J.&A. Churchill, 1877. — 1254 p.This Manual is from first to last a joint production, the Authors holding themselves, in each and every particular, mutually responsible. It claims to he simply a comprehensive Medico-legal Handybook. It does not claim to be a complete treatise. Although its subject is legal medicine, it deals with the medical rather than with the legal. The Authors have felt that lawyers know the legal aspect of the subject better than physicians, whilst physicians know the medical better than lawyers. Recognizing, however, the existence of a part of the subject belonging to both lawyer and physician, but special to neither, they have ventured on this mid-territory, trusting that their medical view of the land in question may be found of service to those whose profession leads them to regard it primarily from a different point of view. It may be desirable to mention that in describing chemical reactions, the Authors have usually adopted the trivial names for reagents rather than a strictly scientific nomenclature. This they have done advisedly, since in all probability the work will be as frequently used by those unfamiliar with modern chemistry as by the chemical student. The same remark explains the use of Fahrenheit degrees and avoirdupois weights in place of the Centigrade and Metric systems.