A Handbook of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology for the Use of Students and Practitioners

Abstract

THIS edition has been revised and enlarged. The chapter on the legal relationships of insanity and other abnormal states of mind, which has been entirely rewritten, gives a very good account in a brief and concise form of a branch of forensic medicine which usually presents difficulties to the medical student and practitioner. Chap, xvii., dealing with “Medical Privileges and Obligations,” is excellent, and gives in a collected form the duties and responsibilities which may devolve upon a medical practitioner as a result of his registration by the General Medical Council. This subject has been much neglected in most of the existing text-books on forensic medicine, and the present edition of this work supplies a much-needed want by providing valuable advice on the line of conduct to be adopted by medical men in the many difficult situations which are likely to arise in medical practice.

A Handbook of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology for the Use of Students and Practitioners.

By Dr. W. A. Brend. Third edition, revised. (Griffin's Medical Pocket-book Series.) Pp. xiii + 317. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 10S. 6d. net.