Pub Date : 1920-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449X2001400107
A. D. Cowbuen
Ir has always seemed to me matter for regret that much of the material so rich in pathological and medico-legal interest which is available in the London coroners' courts is for all practical purposes lost. It is true that the cases are recorded, and that those records are preserved, but they are not readily available except after a lengthy and troublesome search which would involve much time and labour, and the great majority of cases which obtain publicity are selected more with the object of amusing a sensation-loving public rather than from their intrinsic interest or importance. London coroners are, for the most part, busy and hard-worked people who have not the time to undertake extra work of this kind, and, moreover, many cases, while they begin, do not end in coroners' courts, and it is obviously inexpedient, and indeed improper, to deal with them except officially. But there are cases which do not come within this category, and it has always been my own practice to take private notes of those cases which presented unusual features of interest in the hope that some day a sufficient number of them might be of interest to a Society such as this. I have from this number selected a few, which from their unusual character seemed worthy of being brought to your notice.
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Pub Date : 1920-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449x2001400103
N. Raw
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Pub Date : 1920-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449x2001400101
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Pub Date : 1920-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449X2001400104
L. Weatherly
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Pub Date : 1920-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449X2001400108
T. Shore
SUDDEN death in one sense is, of course, one of the necessary accompaniments of war. I do not, however, propose to speak of the military side of the subject, though many of the cases of wounds, asphyxiation from gas, and death apparently from shock only, which it became my business to investigate, were of great interest arid not a little importance. I intend rather to discuss some of the cases on which I made post-mortem examinations which come within the sphere of civil practice, and I have seleeted those cases in which in England an inquiry by a coroner would have been considered necessary, In many cases a "court of inquiry" was held, though I was by no means always summoned to attend, and in others no such inquiry was deemed necessary. Nor, again, do I propose to include a number of accidents, some of which were incidental to the war, but most of which were caused by the usual sort of carelessness which causes so many of the accidents of civil practice. In any campaign of large dimensions it would be strange if no cases of death occurred from other causes than wounds and sickness. The number of troops engaged on the front in France formed a considerable population, and a very mixed one. The circumstances were in m~ny places such as to cause hardships, heavy strain, at times privation, and almost always a greater or less degree of excitement and anxiety. Even though the men had passed a medical examination OIl enlistment, many escaped rejection who certainly were not fit to meet these conditions, and some whom any
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Pub Date : 1920-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449x2001400109
J. Oldfield
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Pub Date : 1920-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449x2001400111
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Pub Date : 1920-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449x2001400105
R. Wellington
My first duty this evening is to tender my thanks to the Society for the honour that it has conferred upon me in electing me as its President, for it is no mean honour to be the President of a society that is composed of members of both the medical and the legal professions throughout Great Britain. To follow Sir William Job Collins, who so ably watched over the Society through its early infancy; Mr. Justice Walton, whose geniality we shall never forget; Sir John Tweedy, who showed indefatigable interest in the Society; Professor Harvey Littlejohn, who travelled so often from Edinburgh to be amongst us; and the Right Hon. Sir Samuel Evans, whose death during his Presidency we all deplored, is indeed no mean honour, and is one the responsibilities of which I appreciate. Medical jurisprudence, or forensic medicine, or, in its widest sense, State medicine, is the application of the principles and knowledge of medicine to those of the law, and dates from the earliest times. Among the Egyptians, according to Plutarch, it was ordained that no pregnant woman should suffer afflictive punishment. Among the Greeks we discover Galen giving his attention to the differences between the lungs of the foetus and of those who were born alive. While the Romans, even from that early period in which Numa Pompilius flourished, founded many of their laws on the authority of ancient physicians and philosophers. The Emperor Adrian was thus influenced by them when extending the period of legitimacy from ten to eleven months. Some detached but striking medico-legal facts are also mentioned by the Roman historians. Thus the bloody remains of Julius Cresar, when exposed to the
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Pub Date : 1918-01-01DOI: 10.1177/1051449X1801300106
F. Smith
GEXTLE~1Ex,-The idea underlying this paper originated in my mind in 1909, when I was specifically invited by a police surgeon to give him a definition of "drunk," or at least some definite line to go upon, if and when he were asked in Court whether a given person were "drunk." After some consideration of the subject, 1gave him a strict definition, possibly impelled thereto by the old adage about angels and other people. Be that as it may, I was so far enamoured of my own conceit that in 1910 I introduced my definition into the sixth edition of Taylor, in the hope that one of my critics might take up the point, and thereby enable me to ventilate the subject. I have also adopted my definition for my own lectures on medical jurisprudence. I am bound to confess that my original inquisitor has not availed himself of my assistance in giving his evidence (nor, indeed, has any other police surgeon, so far as I am aware), a circumstance at which I am neither surprised nor disheartened, for it requires some boldness on the part of a medical witness to try to show to a magistrate or Judge that the question, in the eye of the Law, is one for him as President of the Court and not for the witness to answer. I am, however, somewhat surprised that the profession as a whole has not accepted such an obvious and easy way of escape from a responsibility thrust upon it, not by the Law, but by the executive of the Law. To plunge at once into the difficulties of the whole situation, and " by opposing end them," I define" drunk" as
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