recently established a new Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, a development of major importance to the specialty.1 The Faculty will set standards and offer education and training to a branch of the medical profession that, in the past, has evolved without the formal support of a medical royal college. Forensic medicine embraces a branch of medicine where medical expertise is brought to bea...

In 2005, the Chief Coroner of Ontario instituted a review into 45 cases of criminally suspicious child deaths about which a prominent pediatric forensic pathologist had expressed an opinion that the cause was homicide. Subsequently, a provincial inquiry was called to review the practice and oversight of pediatric forensic pathology in Ontario and to make recommendations to restore and enhance p...

Note: This editorial is being published simultaneously in the Indian Heart Journal, Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, Indian Journal of Pharmacology, Indian Journal of Physiology and Ph...

This work is an addition to the many useful works forming the "Medical Series" being issued by the Messrs. Griffin for practitioners and students, and is produced by them in a pleasant type and on good paper. We presume Dr. Mann's Lectures are the original basis of this work, as it partakes so much of the very necessary compression needed by such a subject for such a purpose. To treat the subje...

Professor Harvey Littixjohn has made an important contribution to medico-legal literature by publishing an atlas of selected medico-legal subjects from specimens in his collection. The chief feature of the book is the numerous splendid illustrations. Short descriptions of these and introductions to the various subjects are also given. Illustrations in medico-legal works are frequently unconvinc...