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Text-book of forensic medicine and toxicology
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The work is a comprehensive textbook of forensic medicine and toxicology, authored by the eminent Professor R. J. M. Buchanan, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool. The opening pages explain that this eighth, revised and enlarged edition, printed in 1915, is divided into two volumes, one on public health (published separately) and the present one on forensic medicine and toxicology. It is organized as a systematic reference, with a detailed contents list that runs from legal criminal procedure and post‑mortem examinations through specific causes of death, and then a second part that classifies poisons, describes their actions, and outlines methods of detection. The preface stresses that the text is intended for students and junior practitioners, yet it also acknowledges the need for a solid grounding in medico‑legal principles for any physician who may be called upon by the courts.
The style is that of an early‑20th‑century academic manual: formal, densely packed with terminology, and illustrated with numerous plates and micrographs that have been repositioned for readability. The language reflects the Victorian‑era legal and medical discourse, preserving original spellings while correcting obvious typographical errors. Readers who appreciate historical approaches to medical jurisprudence, medical students, legal historians, or anyone interested in the evolution of forensic science, will find the book’s thorough, methodical treatment both informative and evocative of a period when medicine and law were being formally intertwined.
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The present edition of Forensic Medicine, Toxicology, and Public Health has been issued in two volumes; the first, on Public Health, written by Professor Hope, has been already published separately. Hitherto the subjects have been dealt with in a single volume under the title of Husband‘s Forensic Medicine, but as they are now being taught by different lecturers and in separate classes in most of the medical schools, it has been thought advisable to issue the work in two parts. This volume on Forensic Medicine and Toxicology has been revised throughout, and certain alterations and additions have been made, whilst at the same time the view that the work is intended for students and junior practitioners has not been lost sight of.
The author expresses his indebtedness to Dr. M‘Fall, Demonstrator of Toxicology in the University of Liverpool, for his assistance in revising the section on “Toxicology,” and also to the publishers for the compilation of the index.
Apart from the general bibliography mentioned in the text, the works of Taylor and Stevenson, Dickson, Mann, Glaister, Petersen and Haynes, have been consulted.
A plate, showing the centre of ossification in the lower epiphysis of the femur in a full time fœtus, has been introduced at the last moment, and will be found opposite page 64. References to the subject may also be found on pages 33 and 174.
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