In" our recent special medico-legal number wo referred to the list of publications by Indian Medical Service officers on the subject of Medical Jurisprudence or Legal Medicine, and the volume now under review is a worthy successor to those which have gone before. Major Collis Barry, i.M.s., by his long assoc.ation with the work ot the Chemical Analyser s department in Bombay, and with the chair...

This paper uses a study of the opinions in a case recently decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., to explain the role of empathy in legal interpretation. I argue for two theses: (1) that empathy is essential to an interpretation of law if that interpretation is to serve the interests of justice and (2) that no interpretation of a law is sound if it ignores w...

That India forms a fruitful field for medicolegal observations is somewhat a trite saying to those who know the country, and is obviously proved by the rich storehouses of facts accumulated in the numerous series of reports, papers, and text-books dealing with Medical Jurisprudence in India. In France the names of Orfila and Tardieu have been held in great repute. Chevers in India corresponds t...

THIs book is one of a series of textbooks being sp2cially written for students of nursing and of the ancillary medical services. The present volume is intended primarily to cover the syllabus in anatomy as set out by the General Nursing Council for the Preliminary State Examination, but will also serve as an introduction to anatomy to students of physiotherapy or radiography. The text is easy t...

THE first edition of this book was reviewed in the Ulster Medical Journal. Additions to the text have added to its value for medical students. The chapter dealing with emotion has been rearranged and in part re-written to include a fuller discussion of some aspects of the work described. Also a brief account of controlled clinical trials of drugs and some of the elementary statistics involved i...

It is a piece of idle senthentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, or prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application oflegal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in th...