Within the past 18 months no less than three valuable treatises on Medical Jurisprudence have appeared from the pens of officers of the Indian Medical Service. We refer to the Legal Medicine by Collis Barry of Bombay, the new edition of L}7on's, edited by Lt.-Col. Waddell C.I.E., and the present volume, which embodies the vast, we might almost say, unique, experience of Lt.-Col. Gibbons as Poli...

The phrase “a jury of one’s peers” brings to mind an image of a jury that perfectly mirrors its community in terms of demographic and attitudinal characteristics. In an ideal world, a perfectly representative jury would be best able to fulfill its role as the conscience of the community in judicial decision-making. As a practical matter, however, the legal requirements governing the composition...

to recent volumes of the Indian Medical Gazette, e.g., an article on rupture of the spleen which does not refer to the papers of Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. Crawford, or on c/avja insanity which knows not the papers by Ewens and Robertson-Milne or one on saponification which omits reference to the various papers in recent years discussing adipocere in India can scarcely be called up to date. In sp...