Facets

1818

#9508

Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées, suivis des moyens propres à reconnaître les poisons et les vins frelatés et à distinguer la mort réelle de la mort apparente.

Translated into English by B. H. Black and published in 1819 as Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison, and those in a state of apparent death: Together with the means of detecting poisons and a…

1821 –1823

#13191

Leçons de médecine légale. 2 vols.

Vol. 1, illustrated with 22 plates, of which 7 were hand-colored, was issued in 1823. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1823

#1735

Elements of medical jurisprudence. 2 vols.

First notable American text on forensic medicine.

1823

#7361

Medical jurisprudence. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1824

#13408

Manuel médico-légal des poisons, précédé de considérations sur l'empoisonnement, des moyens de le constater, du résultat d'expériences faites sur l'acétate de morphine et les autres alcalis végétaux; suivi d'une méthode de traiter les morsures des animaux enragés et de la vipère; d'un précis sur la pustule maligne; des secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées, noyées ou asphyxiées, etc. Rédigé sous les yeux de M. le Professeur Chaussier, par E. Montmahou.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1824

#13409

Receuil de mémoires, consultations et rapports sur divers objets de médecine légale.

Chaussier pioneered the practice of forensic medicine in France. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

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.

1825

#11730

Report of the trial of an action: Charles Lowell against John Faxon and Micajah Hawks, doctors of medicine, defendants, for malpractice in the capacity of physicians and surgeons: At the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, holden at Machias for the county of Washington, June term, 1824, before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jun., justice of the court.

A detailed narrative on the trial based on the transcript. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1826

#11728

A letter to the Hon. Isaac Parker, chief justice of the Supreme court of the state of Massachusetts, containing remarks on the dislocation of the hip joint, occasioned by the publication of a trial which took place at Machias, in the state of Maine, June, 1824. By John C. Warren. With an appendix of documents from the trial necessary to illustrate the history of the case.

This work, illustrated with 5 plates, contains several clear and minute descriptions of dislocation of the hip joint. In the course of the monograph Warrenproved the possibility of a type of dislocation that was denie…

1826

#13410

Mémoire médico-légal sur la viabilité de l'enfant naissant.

Chaussier introduced a procedure for the revival of near-dead infants. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1827

#14285

Der Leichnam des Menschen in seinen physischen Verwandlungen nach Beobachtungen und Versuchen.

The human corpse in its physical transformations according to observations and experiments.

1828

#7096

Report from the select committee on anatomy. House of Commons, 22 July 1828.

In the first half of 1828, in response to increasing calls for reform, the British Parliament appointed a committee to "enquire into the manner of obtaining subjects for dissection by schools of Anatomy and the State …

1829

#11760

Address to the community, on the necessity of legalizing the study of anatomy

The petition to the Massachusetts legislature to legalize "the procuring of subjects for anatomical dissections" (from George Hayward's printed notice on the verso of the title page). Nine members of the Massachusetts…

1831

#9954

Traité des exhumations juridiques, et considérations sur les changemens physiques que les cadavres éprouvent en sepourrissant dans la terre, dans l’eau, dans les fosses d’aisance etdans le fumier. 2 vols.

The first book devoted entirely to exhumation and decomposition of bodies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1831

#9995

Anatomy. Copy of a letter from the council of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, to Viscount Melbourne.

On December 5, 1831, the notorious London "resurrection men" John Bishop and Thomas Williams were executed for the murder of an itinerant fourteen-year-old (known only as the "Italian Boy"), whose corpse they had then…

1831

#11759

Report of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives ... legalizing the study of anatomy.

This was the first law passed in the United States consigning the bodies of those who died in workhouses, hospitals, and similar institutions, the bodies of whom were "unclaimed," to medical schools for dissection. "S…

1832

#9993

Anatomy. Proceedings at the National Political Union, respecting legislative interference in the study of anatomy, and the supply of bodies for anatomical research.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1832

#10393

Code administratif des établissemens dangereux, insalubres ou incommodes.

Trebuchet's work sets out the rules and regulations governing dangerous and unhealthy work environments (particularly those involving steam engines) and public nuisances. Pages 281-301 contain a table of businesses cl…

1834

#10394

Jurisprudence de la médecine, de la chirurgie, et de la pharmacie en France, comprenant la médecine légale, la police médicale, la responsabilitié des médecins, chirurgiens, pharmaciens, etc, l'exposé et la discussion des lois, ordonnances, réglemens et instructions concernant l'art de guérir, appuyé des jugemens des cours et des tribunaux.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

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…

1835

#11750

Systematisches Handbuch der gerichtlichen Psychologie für Medicinalbeamte, Richter und Vertheidiger.

A comprehensive manual on forensic psychiatry, preceding Isaac Ray's book by three years. Digital facsimile from Google Books 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…

1836

#10352

Enchiridion medicum, oder Anleitung zur medizinischen Praxis. Vermächtniss einer fünfzigjärigen erfahrung.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English by Caspar Bruchhausen and Robert Nelson as Manual of the practice of medicine: The result of fifty years' experience. London: Hippolyte Baii…

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…

c. 1839

#10003

Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning unmasked; or, Disease and death in the pot and the bottle; in which the blood-empoisoning and life-destroying adulterations of wines, spirits, beer, bread, flour, tea, sugar, spices, cheese-mongery, pastry, confectionary medicines, &c. &c. &c. are laid open to the public, with tests or methods for the ascertaining and detecting the fraudulent and deleterious adulterations and the good and bad qualities of those articles: with an exposé of medical empiricism and imposture, quacks and quackery, regular and irregular, legitimate and illegitimate: and the frauds and mal-practices of the pawn-brokers and madhouse keepers. New edition

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1842

#13121

On the different forms of insanity in relation to jurisprudence, designed for the use of persons concerned in legal questions regarding unsoundness of mind.

In this book Prichard presented his arguments for introducing the concept of diminished responsibility and irresistable impulse into the legal precedents. Hunter & McAlpine, 836-42. Digital facsimile from the Wellcome…

1843

#13250

The plea of insanity in criminal cases.

One of the first attempts to outline criteria through which to determine the legitimacy of an insanity plea. The was resolved later in 1843 with the establishment of the M'Naghten Rules, (McNaghten) which this work un…

1844

#1740

Principles of forensic medicine.

1844

#13608

Considérations médico-légales sur l'avortement suivies de quelques réflexions sur la liberté de l'enseignement médical à propos d'un procès en cour d'assises, mémoire adressé a l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Paris.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1845

#10349

Déontologie médicale ou des devoirs et des droits des médecins dans l'état actuel de la civilisation.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1846

#7310

U. S. Patent No. 4848. The United States of America. To all to whom these Letters Patent shall come.... November 12, 1846.

U.S. Patent No. 4848, issued to Charles T. Jackson and William T. G. Morton on November 12, 1846 for the discovery of sulfuric ether as a surgical anesthetic. This was the first truly significant medical patent ever i…

1847

#7249

Première Lettre. Boston, le 13 november 1846.

Jackson, a physician, geologist and chemist in Boston, wrote this letter to Élie de Beaumont in Paris on November 13, 1846, the day after he and William T. G. Morton jointly received U.S. Patent No. 4848 for Improveme…

1847

#10063

Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847.

The complete proceedings of the founding of the American Medical Association. This version also contains the text of the Code of Ethics written by Isaac Hayes and adopted by the AMA. In updated forms, this remains the…

1848

#10056

Code of ethics of the American Medical Association. Adopted May 1847.

Heavily influenced by Percival's work, the AMA's code of ethics was written by Isaac Hayes. The first leaf of this 30-page pamphlet indicates that it was "Printed for Private Distribution by the Philadelphia Delegatio…

1848

#10729

Poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine.

Taylor was the leading English toxicologist and medical witness of his time, and his works were revised, edited, and translated into other languages. He "performed an invaluable service in codifying legal precedents a…

1849

#10110

Physician and patient; or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community.

"During this era of rampant sectarianism in medicine, doctors frequently became dishonest or abusive as they competed for patients. To deal with this situation, the American Medical Association adopted [in 1847] a cod…

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.

1850

#9383

Traité théorique et pratique de la méthode anesthésique appliquée a la chirurgie et aux différentes branches de l'art de guérir.

Of particular interest for the introductory chapter 2 on pain produced in surgical operations and chapter 3 on the history of the understanding and attempts at treatment of pain, surgical and otherwise, before ether a…

1854

#8892

Dictionnaire d'hygiène publique et de salubrité ou répertoire de toutes les questions relatives à la santé publique, considérées dans leurs rapports avec les subsistances, les épidémies, les professions, les établissements et institutions d'hygiène et de salubrité, complété par le texte des lois, décrets, arrêtés, ordonnances et instructions qui s'y rattachen. 3 vols.

For the second edition (1862) Tardieu expanded the work to 4 volumes. Tardieu described the terrible working conditions of children in factories and mines. He also reported the ill consequences of theses conditions on…

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.

1855

#10103

History of the American Medical Association, from its organization up to January, 1855. To which is appended biographical notices, with portraits of the presidents of the association, and of the author

The first history of the American Medical Association, founded in 1847, written by one of its chief founders. Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.

1856

#11072

De l'homicide et de l'anthropophagie.

One of the earliest works on cannibalism, and probably the first work to combine a discussion of homicide and cannibalism from the medical viewpoint. The author, who was very widely read on these subjects, searched fo…

1856

#13687

Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement, suivie d’observations et de recherches pour servir à l’histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées.

Perhaps the most widely revised and reprinted of all of Tardieu's works. 4th revised & enlarged edition, 1881; 7th revised and enlarged edition, 1904; new revised edition, 1907, 1925, 1939. Digital facsimile of the 4t…

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.

1857

#8891

Étude médico-légale sur les attentats aux moeurs.

“Extrait des Annales d’hygiène publique et de médicine légale, 2e série, tome VIII." Tardieu divided his book on "sexual crimes" into three parts: the first deals with indecent exposures, the second with rape, and the…

1860

#8890

Etude médico-légale sur les sévices et mauvais traitements exercés sur des enfants.

The first medical-legal study of child abuse, including sexual abuse, incest, and the "battered child" syndrome. Tardieu described 32 cases in detail, 18 of which resulted in death. Digital facsimile from Google Books…

1860

#14204

A medico-legal treatise on malpractice and medical evidence, comprising the elements of medical jurisprudence.

The first treatise on malpractice published in the United States and the first book to provide observations on the physician as an expert witness in malpractice cases. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at …

1863

#1744

Klinische Novellen zur gerichtlichen Medizin.

1863

#10531

Geregtelijke geneeskunde, uit het Chineesch vertaald.

Translation into Dutch of the 13th century Chinese text on forensic medicine entitled Xiyuan lu jizheng huizuan. de Grijs's translation was retranslated into German by Henry Breitenstein as Gerichtliche Medizin der Ch…