Excerpt from The Principles of Forensic Medicine: Systematically Arranged, and Applied to British PracticeThe design of this work Is to explain the phy sical grounds on which we may conclude that the human fi'ame has sustained injury - whether fatal to life, or not. It is offered to the consi deration Of magistrates, coroners, barris ters, and, Medical' practitioners, in the hope'that some useful hints may be derived, both as to asking and answering the questions that should be put, when events of such nature become matter of Judiciary investigation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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