A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1893. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 237, [3], and 32 pages of advertisements at the back. Interesting pagination issue., it goes from xi, blank page,and then to an unmarked page 17 without any apparent missing text. Cover worn and soiled. Front hinge weak and restrengthened with glue. Edge tear to free end page. Stamp of previous owner inside front cover. Copyright date is 1892 and author's Preface is dated August 1892. Title page has a date of 1893 and to date no copy with an 1892 date has been identified. With Thirty Six Illustrations, some of Which are in Colors. Includes Preface. Also includes chapters on The Subject of Medical Jurisprudence; Signs of Death; Wounds; Blood-stains; Burns and Scalds; Death from Starvation; Rape upon Children; Signs of Pregnancy; Development of Embryo; Infanticide; Live Birth; Legitimacy; Feigned Bodily Diseases; and Insanity. Also includes a chapter on Toxicology, as well as an index. This manual embraces essentially the course of lectures on Medical Jurisprudence delivered by the author to the students of Jefferson Medical college during the session of 1891 and 1892. It was prepared, at the request of the students, in the hope that it would assist them as well as others in the study of this most important branch of medicine. The necessarily prescribed limits of the work permit only the consideration of those parts of this extensive subject which the experience of the author as Coroner's physician of the city of Philadelphia for a period of six years leads him to regard as the most important for practical purposes. Henry Cadwalader Chapman (1845–1909) was an American physician and naturalist. Chapman was born August 17, 1845, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1864 and then matriculated into the medical department. In 1867 he took his M. D. with a thesis on "Generation." He entered the Pennsylvania Hospital, first as an assistant in the apothecary shop, and later as a resident physician, but in 1869 went to Europe for three years' study with Sir Richard Owen, London; Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Paris; Emil du Bois-Reymond, Berlin; and Josef Hyrtl, Vienna. On his return from Europe he prepared for publication his first work, The Evolution of Life, issued in 1872. Joseph Leidy, and the naturalist Timothy Abbott Conrad were his warm friends, and sponsors for his election to the Academy of Natural Sciences, to the proceedings of which he often contributed. He became a director of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia in 1881, was its secretary in 1884 and corresponding secretary 1890–1904. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1875. From 1873 to 1876 he was Leidy's assistant in the University of Pennsylvania and lectured on anatomy and physiology. The next year he was a curator of the Academy, succeeding George W. Tryon, Jr., and served again in 1891, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Leidy. From 1877 to 1880 he was demonstrator of physiology in association with James Aiken Meigs in Jefferson Medical College, and 1879–1880 was curator of the museum; in 1878 the college gave him his second degree in medicine, when his thesis was the "Persistence of Forces in Biology." Meigs died in the autumn of 1879, soon after starting his lectures for the term, and the course was continued by Chapman who, in 1880, was appointed to the vacant chair of institutes of medicine and medical jurisprudence. From 1878 to 1885 he served as professor of physiology in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. The University of Pennsylvania gave him the degree of Doctor of Science in 1908. Chapman wrote much on the anatomy of apes and was fortunate in securing a gorilla (1878) and a chimpanzee (1899) for dissection; practically all the valuable material coming out of the Philadelphia Zoological Garden passed through his hands. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: Medical Jurisprudence, Manuals, Toxicology, Blood-Stains, Wounds, Scalds, Starvation, Rape, Pregnancy, Infanticide, Live Birth, Embryo, Insanity, Death, Burns
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