Entry Nos. 1700–1799

1840

#1700

Principes généraux de statistique médicale.

In his work on medical statistics Gavarret improved and systematized the method of Louis and gave special consideration to therapeutic problems.

1873

#1701

Plan einer Mortalitäts-Statistik für Grossstädte.

The modern methods of interpreting vital statistics of large cities were devised by von Körösi.

1875

#1702

Essays and papers on some fallacies of statistics concerning life and death, health and disease.

1875

#1703

Supplement to the thirty-fifth annual report of the Registrar-General of Births and Marriages in England.

Includes statistical calculations of the effect on life expectation if certain preventable diseases were eliminated.

1885

#1704

Vital statistics. A memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr.

Farr applied statistical methods to epidemiology and was the first mathematically to express the rise and fall of epidemic diseases, thus making possible the more accurate prediction of the occurrence of epidemics.

1889

#1705

On vital and medical statistics.

1897

#1706

The chances of death and other studies in evolution. 2 vols.

1899

#1707

Statistical methods, with special reference to biological variation.

Davenport introduced statistical methods into American evolutionary studies.

1907

#1709

Probability: The foundation of eugenics.

1911

#1710

La dépopulation de la France: Ses conséquences, ses causes, mésures à prendre pour la combattre.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1914

#1711

On the handicapping of the first-born.

1920

#1712

On the rate of growth of the population of the United States since 1790 and its mathematical representation.

1922

#1713

The population problem: A study in human evolution.

1939

#1714

The natural history of population.

1932

#1715

Contributions to the history of statistics.

1948

#1716

Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr.

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1941 and 1943.

1835

#1717

Kaiser Karl’s des Fünften Peinlich Gerichtsordnung … Hrsg. von R. Schmid.

CONSTITUTIO CRIMINALIS CAROLINA

The Constitutio Criminalis of the Emperor Charles V (circa 1533) is probably the oldest European document of any importance dealing with medical jurisprudence. It authorized judges to call expert witnesses in medico-l…

1597

#1718

De vitiis vocis libri duo. In quibus non solum vocis definitio traditur, et explicatur, sed illius differentiae, instrumenta, et causae aperiuntur. Vltimo de vocis conseruatione, praeseruatione, ac vitiorum eius curatione tractatur. Opus ad vtilitatem concionatorum praecipuè editum. Cui accedit consilium de raucedine ac methodus testificandi in quibusuis casibus medicis oblatis, postquam formulae quaedam testationum proponantur.

Codronchi's Methodus testificandi, inquibusvis casibus medicis oblatis first published in the above (pp. 148-232), is considered the earliest significant work on forensic medicine. Digital facsimile from Google Books …

1602

#1719

De relationibus medicorum libri quatuor. In quibus ea omnia, quae in forensibus, ac publicis causis medici referre solent, plenissime traduntur.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1621 –1661

#1720

Quaestiones medico-legales. 9 vols.

Zacchias, a Papal physician, was one of the founders of medical jurisprudence. His treatise includes information concerning injuries of the eye, etc., and contains section on the medico-legal aspects of insanity. The …

1630

#1721

Disputatio medica de notis virginitatis.

Details the methods of previous and contemporary writers concerning the determination of virginity. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1660

#1722

Rationale vulnerum lethalium judicium, in quo de vulnerum lethalium natura et causis, legitima item eorundem inspectione, ac aliis circa hanc materiam scitu dignis juxta, quam necessariis, agitur.

Welsch stressed the need for autopsy in medico-legal cases. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1667

#1723

De gemellis et partu numerosiore.

Medico-legal aspects of multiple births. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1667

#1724

Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicus de respiratione usuque pulmonum.

Swammerdam’s earliest published work. In it he recorded his discovery that the lungs of newborn infants will float on water if respiration has taken place, an important medico-legal point.

1684

#1725

La doctrine des rapports de chirurgie, fondées sur les maximes d’usage et sur la disposition des nouvelles ordonnances.

De Blégny explained the obligation of surgeons to report any suspicion of crime, and explained how to prepare expert opinion for presentation before the court.

1689

#1726

De renunciatione vulnerum, seu vulnerum lethalium examen.

“The best work on fatal injuries, with frequent references of medicolegal importance” (Nemec).

1690

#1727

Erörterung und Erläuterung der Frage: Ob es ein gewiss Zeichen wenn, eines todten Kindes Lunge im Wasser untersincket, dass solches in MutterLeiber gestorben sey? Zu Rettung seiner Ehre in Druck befördert.

Swammerdam’s discovery that the fetal lungs will float on water if respiration has taken place was first put to practical use by Schreyer, who thereby secured the acquittal of a girl accused of infanticide.

1722

#1728

Corpus juris medico-legale.

This reprints Valentini’s Pandectae medico legales (1701) and Novellae medico-legales (1711) with the addition of Authentica iatro-forensia.

1725 –1729

#1729

Systema jurisprudentiae medicae. 2 vols.

A work covering the whole field of medical jurisprudence as then understood, and ranking in importance with the work of Valentini. The first supplement was published in Halle, 1733. The much-expanded second edition, i…

1763

#1730

Mémoire sur une question anatomique relative à la jurisprudence; dans lequel on établit les principes pour distinguer, à l’inspection d’un corps trouvé pendu, les signes du suicide d’avec ceux de l’assassinat.

Louis was a pioneer of French medical jurisprudence. Above is a classic discussion on the differential signs of murder and suicide in cases of hanging.

1764

#1731

Mémoire contre la légitimité des naissances prétendues tardives.

An attempt to set the minimum and maximum time limits of duration of human pregnancy. Supplement published in 1764.

1784

#1732

On the uncertainty of the signs of murder, in the case of bastard children.

This essay on the signs of murder in illegitimate children is, in Garrison’s view, the most important early contribution to forensic medicine by a British writer.

1788

#1733

Elements of medical jurisprudence.

First textbook in English on medical jurisprudence.

1799

#1734

Les lois éclairées par les sciences physiques, ou traité de médecine légale et hygiène publique. 3 vols.

This important publication was for many years the authoritative textbook on the subject in France.

1823

#1735

Elements of medical jurisprudence. 2 vols.

First notable American text on forensic medicine.

1825

#1736

System der psychisch-gerichtlichen Medizin, oder theoretisch-praktische Anweisung zur wissenschaftlichen Erkenntniss und gutachtlichen Darstellung der krankhaften persönlichen Zustände, welche vor Gericht in Betracht kommen.

The first important work exclusively on medico-legal aspects of insanity. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1836

#1737

Observations on manual strangulation, illustrated by cases and experiments.

After performing an autopsy on a strangulation case, Gross set out to study the physiology involved in manual strangulation. He set up a series of experiments on dogs for this purpose and provides autopsy reports on e…

1836

#1738

Elements of medical jurisprudence.

The standard English work on the subject for generations, translated, expanded and used worldwide; thirteenth edition, Principles and practice of medical jurisprudence, appeared in 1984. Digital facsimile of the first…

1838

#1739

A treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity.

The first authoritative and comprehensive treatise in English on forensic psychiatry. Ray became the most influential American writer on forensic psychiatry in the 19th century. He put the above work through five edit…

1844

#1740

Principles of forensic medicine.

1850

#1741

Gerichtliche Leichenöffnungen.

Casper was a great authority on forensic medicine. He also wrote on medical statistics. Above is an important compilation on judicial autopsies.

1855

#1742

Deformities after fractures.

Hamilton was a medical inspector of the U.S. Army and later became Professor of Surgery at Bellevue Hospital. See No. 4420.

1857 –1858

#1743

Practisches Handbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin. 2 vols. plus atlas of nine chromolithographed plates.

Casper was the greatest name in forensic medicine in his time. His book was published in English by the New Sydenham Society in 1861-65; it was unsurpassed for many years.

1863

#1744

Klinische Novellen zur gerichtlichen Medizin.

1867

#1745

Etude médico-légale et clinique sur l’empoisonnement.

1868

#1746

Die gerichtlich-chemische Ermittelung von Giften in Nahrungsmitteln, Luftgemischen, Speiseresten, Körpertheilen, etc.

Dragendorff, Professor of Pharmacy at Dorpat, Marburg, and Vienna, contributed an important book on forensic chemistry. He was responsible for the introduction of several methods for the detection of poisons in the hu…

1872

#1747

Beiträge zur gerichtlichen Chemie einzelner organischer Gifte.

1875

#1748

Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Psychopathologie.

1877 –1878

#1749

Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin.

An important German work on the subject. Hofmann’s book went through many editions and was translated into several European languages.

1893

#1750

Forensic medicine and toxicology.