ON MEDICO-LEGAL EVIDENCE IN CASES OF, INSANITY.*1

No. III. On Medico-Legal Evidence in Cases of Insanity

to exaggerate the interest of the subject now under consideration? I propose to submit to your critical judgment a sketch of our high and responsible vocation as medico-legal witnesses?to suggest for adoption certain general principles of evidence, which may serve as our guide when called upon to give testimony in difficult, doubtful, and disputed cases of insanity. The position of the medical ...

On Medico-Legal Evidence in Cases of Insanity

I purposely decline entering at any length into the consideration of the law of lunacy relating to dispositions of property, and the performance of the marriage contract. In the former case the proof of insanity invalidates all testamentary documents; but the courts are extremely jealous in interfering with the apparent wishes of the testator, unless clear and positive lunacy be established. Th...

Two Interesting Medico-Legal Cases

From a number of medico-legal cases, which have come under my notice during the sixteen months I have been acting as Civil Surgeon of Murshidabad, I have selected two as of interest and worthy of permanent record. (a) False charge of clacoity with self-inflicted injuries.?On the morning of August 22nd, 1898, one Jifcan Ali Mir sent his nephew to report to the Police that a dacoity had been comm...

Psychological Retrospect and Medico-Legal Cases

to employ his spare time in literary pursuits, and his two last works, the " Life of Charles Dickens " and the " Life of Dean Swift," will of themselves show what a loss the literary world has sustained in his death, and they will remain as standard English works on biography. We announce with great satisfaction the appointment of Dr. Crichton Browne to the office of Lord Chancellor's Visitor o...

Two Rare Cases of Sudden Death in Medico-Legal Practice