Facets

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…

1870

#11623

A manual of medical jurisprudence for India, including the outline of a history of crime against the person in India.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1870

#13688

Étude médico-légale sur la pendaison, la strangulation, les suffocations.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1872

#1747

Beiträge zur gerichtlichen Chemie einzelner organischer Gifte.

1872

#13171

The detection of criminal abortion, and a study of foeticidal drugs.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1874

#7848

The nature of gunshot wounds of the abdomen, and their treatment: Based on a review of the case of the late James Fisk, Jr., in its medico-legal aspects.

Peugnet argued that over-medication, and not the pistol shot, caused Fisk's death. Peugnet, a surgeon who had served in the American Civil War, died at the early age of 43, having been struck by a locomotive while abs…

1875

#1748

Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Psychopathologie.

1875

#5912

Ueber die Verletzungen des Auges mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deren gerichtsärztliche Würdigung.

English translation by Charles S. Turnbull as Injuries of the eye and their medico-legal aspect. (Philadelpha. 1878). Digital facsimile of the 1875 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1878 edition f…

1876

#174

L’uomo delinquente, studiato in rapporto alla antropologia, alla medicina legale ed alle discipline carcerarie.

Lombroso inaugurated the doctrine of a “criminal type”. His systematic studies showed that in general the criminal population exhibits a higher percentage of physical, nervous and mental anomalies than the normal popu…

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.

1877

#9160

Public hygiene in America: Being the centennial discourse delivered before the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, September, 1876 by Henry I. Bowditch. With extracts from correspondence from the various states. Together with a digest of American sanitary law by Henry G. Pickering.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1879

#9028

The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1880

#177

On the skin-furrows of the hand.

Faulds’s fingerprint method of identification.

1882

#11160

De l’homicide commis par les enfants.

Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.

1883

#8133

Medical ethics and etiquette. The code of ethics adopted by the American Medical Association, with commentaries by Austin Flint.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1883

#8176

Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1884

#10114

Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada. prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the board.

Rauch, Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health, was responsible for compiling and publishing this detailed report. It was the most important and comprehensive summary of American, and Canadian medical educatio…

1886

#181

Les signalements anthropométriques.

Bertillon invented a method (“Bertillonage”) of identifying persons by means of selected measurements, the five following measurements being used as the basis of his system: head length, head breadth, length of middle…

1886

#4944

Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.

Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…

1886

#10350

The relation of hospitals to medical education.

Withington, pp. 18-22, proposed Bills of Rights for subjects of experiments "to secure patients again any injustice from the votaries of science." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1890

#7229

The deaf soldier: A brief synopsis of one hundred and two cases of deafness. Prepared for the consideration of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.

One of the earliest accounts of the recognition of loss of hearing due to firearms and explosions during war. Foster, secretary and treasurer of the Silent Army of Deaf Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, presented 100 cas…

1891

#13172

Suggestions to the medical witness.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1892

#186

Finger prints.

The use of fingerprints as identification marks was known to the Chinese, but Galton was among the first to explain their possibilities in the identification of criminals. “Galton’s delta” is a triangular area of papi…

1893

#1750

Forensic medicine and toxicology.

1894

#13770

La faune des cadavres: Application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1895

#1751

La mort et la mort subite.

Brouardel was professor of forensic medicine, Paris. He was to a great extent responsible for the development of that subject in France; he instituted courses of practical instruction at the Paris morgue, and wrote se…

1895

#7408

Anatomische Forschungen über Johann Sebastian Bach's Gebeine und Anlitz nebst Bemerkungen über dessen Bilder. Abh. Sächs. Ges. Wiss., 22/5.

To authenticate the remains of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm His senior performed one of the earliest examples of scientific facial reconstructions, reconstructing the soft tissues onto a plaster cast of the skull us…

1895

#10353

Das Recht auf den Tod. Sociale Studie.

This work is considered the starting point for a broad philosophical discussion on euthanasia in the German-speaking world. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1896

#444.1

The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812, to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act.

First-hand account of the activities of the so-called “sack-em-up” men who flourished in England and Scotland until passage in 1832 of the Anatomy Act provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers for dissect…

1896

#9905

Les asphyxies par les gaz, les vapeurs et les anesthésiques.

1896

#10608

14 Photographien mit Röntgen-strahlen aufgenommen im physikaloschen Verein zu Frankfurt A. M.

This collection of x-ray photographs published within a few months of Röntgen's discovery includes applications in archaeology and anthropology (x-rays of mummies) and forensic medicine (for the investigation of gunsh…

1897

#1752

L’infanticide.

1897

#1753

La pendaison, la strangulation, la suffocation, la submersion.

1897

#1766

Medicinische Deontologie.

1897

#9903

Les explosifs, les explosions au point de vue médico-légal.

1897

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898

#10497

L'art dentaire en médecine légale.

The first comprehensive text on forensic dentistry, dedicated by Amoëdo to his teacher, Brouardel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1900

#189

Classification and uses of finger prints.

The Henry system of fingerprint classification, developed when Henry served as Inspector-General of Police in Bengal, is the basis for the system presently in use worldwide.

1901

#1754

Eine Methode zur Unterscheidung der verschiedenen Blutarten, im besonderen zum differentialdiagnostischen Nachweise des Menschenblutes.

Uhlenhuth was the first to use precipitins in medico-legal tests for human blood.

1901

#9904

L'Avortement

1902

#2129

Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.

A collective work edited by Oliver. Digital fascimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1902

#10354

Ärztliche Ethik: Die Pflichten des Arztes in allen Beziehungen seiner Thätigkeit.

See Andreas-Holger Maehle, "'God's ethicist': Albert Moll and his medical ethics in theory and practice," Medical History, 56 (2012) 217-236. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903

#11132

La pratique des autopsies.

Considered the most beautiful book on autopsies. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.

1903

#12535

Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.

Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the author/…

1904

#1

The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 BCE. Autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections, and erasures, with map, frontispiece, and photograph of text by Robert Francis Harper.

The Code of Hammurabi was found among the cuneiform tablets of the library of Ashurbanipal. It is now in the Louvre. It was first published in Scheil, "Textes élamites-sémitiques. Deuxième série: accompagné de 20 plan…

1905

#1755

Criminal responsibility.

1905

#8713

How to succeed in the practice of medicine.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1907

#2130

In Report of the Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases. Cd. 3495 and 3496.

The first reported case of asbestosis was observed by Murray at Charing Cross Hospital, London, in 1899 and reported to the Committee (Report, p. 14: Minutes of Evidence, p. 127) in 1907.

1908

#8246

Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.

Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.