HENRY C. LEA'S PUBLICATIONS (Medical Jurisprudence, &c.). 31 



rTATLOR (ALFRED S.}, M.D., 



* Lecturer on Med. Jurisp. and Chemistry in Guy's Hospital. 



MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. Sixth American, from the eighth 



and revised London edition. With Notes and References to American Decisions, by CLE- 

 MENT B. PENROSE, of the Philadelphia Bar. In one large octavo volume of 776 pages, 

 extra cloth, $4 50 ; leather, $5 50. (Just Issued.) 



Considerable additions have been made by the editor to this edition, comprising some important 

 sections from the author's larger work, " The Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence," 

 as well as references to American law and practice. The notes of the former editor, Dr. Harts- 

 horne, have likewise been retained, and the whole is presented as fully worthy to maintain the 

 distinguished position which the work has acquired as a leading text-book and authority on the 

 subject. 



A new edition of a work acknowledged as a stand- 

 ard authority everywhere within the range of the 

 English language. Considering the new matter intro- 

 duced, on trichiniasis and other subjects, and the 

 plates representing the crystals of poisons, etc. , it may 

 fairly be regarded as the most compact, comprehen- 

 sive, and practical work on medical jurisprudence 

 which has issued from the press, and the one best 

 fitted for students. Pacific Med. and Surg. Journal, 

 Feb. 1867. 



The sixth edition of this popular work comes to us 

 in charge of a new editor, Mr. Penrose, of the Phila- 

 delphia bar, who has done much to render it useful, 

 not only to the medical practitioners of this country, 

 but to those of his own profession. Wisely retaining 

 the references of the former American editor, Dr. 

 Hartshorne, he has added many valuable notes of his 

 own. The reputation of Dr. Taylor's work is so well 

 established, that it needs no recommendation. He is 

 now the highest living authority on all matters con- 

 nected with forensic medicine, and every successive 

 edition of his valuable work gives fresh assurance to 

 his many admirers that he will continue to maintain 

 his well-earned position. No one should, in fact, be 

 without a text-book on the subject, as he does not 

 know but that his next case may create for him an 

 emergency for its use. To those who are not the for- 

 tunate possessors of a reliable, readable, interesting, 



elaborate treatises. New York Medical Record, Feb. 

 15, 1867. 



The present edition of this valuable manual is a 

 great improvement on those which have preceded it. 

 Some admirable instruction on the subject of evidence 

 and the duties and responsibilities of medical -wit- 

 nesses has been added by the distinguished author, 

 and some fifty cuts, illustrating chiefly the crystalline 

 forms and microscopic structure of substances used 

 as poisons, inserted. The American editor has also 

 introduced several chapters from Dr. Taylor's larger 

 work, "The Principles and Practice of Medical Juris- 

 prudence," relating to trichiniasis, sexual malforma- 

 tion, insanity as affecting civil responsibility, suicidal 

 mania, and life insurance, &c., which add considerably 

 to its value. Besides this, he has introduced nume- 

 rous references (o cases which have occurred in this 

 country. It makes thus by far the best guide-book 

 in this department of medicine for students and the 

 general practitioner in our language. Boston Med. 

 and Surg. Journal, Dec. 27, 1866. 



Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence has been the text- 

 book in our colleges for years, and the present edi- 

 tion, with the valuable additions made by the Ameri- 

 can editor, render it the most standard work of the 

 day, on the peculiar province of medicine on which 

 it treats. The American editor, Dr. Hartshorne, has 

 done his duty to the text, and, upon the whole, we 



and thoroughly practical work upon the subject, we j cannot but consider this volume the best and richest 

 would earnestly recommend this, as forming the best j treatise on medical jurisprudence in our language. 

 ground worl^-for all their future studies of the more I Brit. Am. Med. Journal. 



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'INSLOW (FORBES], M.D., D.C.L., frc. 



ON OBSCURE DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND DISORDERS 



OP THE MIND; their incipient Symptoms, Pathology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Pro- 

 phylaxis. Second American, from the third and revised English edition. In one handsome 

 octavo volume of nearly 600 pages, extra cloth. $4 25. (Just Issued.) 



Of the merits of Dr. Winslow's treatise the profes- I our conviction that it is long since so important and 

 sion has sufficiently judged. It has taken its place in | beautifully written a volume has issued from the 



the front rank of the works upon the special depart- 

 ment of practical medicine to which it pertains. 

 Cincinnati Journal of Medicine, March, 1866. 



It is an interesting volume that will amply repay 

 for a careful perusal by all intelligent readers. 

 Chicago Med. Examiner, Feb. 1866. 



A work which, like the present, will largely aid 



British medical press. The details of the manage- 

 ment of confirmed cases of insanity more nearly in- 

 terest those who have made mental diseases their 

 special study; but Dr. Winslow's masterly exposi- 

 tion of the early symptoms, and his graphic descrip 

 tions of the insidious advances of incipient insanity, 

 together with his judicious observations on the treat- 

 ment of disorders of the mind, should, we repeat, be 



the practitioner in recognizing and arresting the first j care f u n y studied by all who' have undertaken 'the 

 insidious advances of cerebral and mental disease, is 

 one of immense practical value, and demands earnest 

 attention and diligent study on the part of all who 

 have embraced the medical profession, and have 



thereby undertaken responsibilities in which the 

 welfare and happiness of individuals and families 

 are largely involved. We shall therefore close this 

 brief and necessarily very imperfect notice of Dr. 

 Winslow's great and classical work by expressing 



responsibilities of medical practice. Dublin Medical 

 Press. 



It is the most interesting as well as valuable book 

 that we have seen for a long time. It is truly fasci- 

 nating. Am. Jour. Med. Sciences. 



Dr. Winslow's work will undoubtedly occupy an 

 unique position in the medico-psychological litera- 

 ture of this country. London Med. Review. 



EA (HENRY C.) 



f SUPERSTITION AND FORCE: ESSAYS ONT THE WAGER OF 



LAW, THE WAGER OF BATTLE, THE ORDEAL, AND TORTURE. In one hand- 

 some volume royal 12mo., of 406 pages ; extra ctoth, $2 50. 



The copious collection of facts by which Mr. Lea has 

 illustrated his subject shows in the fullest manner the 

 constant conflict and varying success, the advances 

 and defeats, by which the progress of humane legisla- 

 tion has been and is still marked. This work fills up 

 with the fullest exemplification and detail the wise 

 remarks which we have quoted above. As a book of 



a humor so fine and good, that he makes us regret it 

 was not within his intent, as it was certainly within 

 his power, to render the whole of his thorough work 

 more popular in manner. Atlantic Monthly, Feb. '67. 

 This is a book of extraordinary research. Mr. Lea 

 has entered into his subject con amore ; and a more 

 striking record of the cruel superstitions of our un- 



ready reference on the subject it is of the highest I happy Middle Ages could not possibly have been coin- 

 VA\\IQ. Westminster Review, Oct. 1867. piled.. . . As a work of curious inquiry on certain 



sn half in spite of himself, as it appears he outlying points of obsolete law; "Superstition and 

 esyfecene or character in the history of legalized Force" is one of the most remarkable books we have 

 cruelty, he betrays so artistic a feeling, and met with. London Athenceum, Nov. 3, 1866. 



