Excerpt from Elements of Medical Jurisprudence, Vol. 2 The duties Of this Office are imperfectly understood, and often most negligently performed. The individuals appointed are frequently unfit for the situation, both from habits and education, while the jury are too commonly desirous Of hurry ing through the investigation. It has been proposed to remedy the first difficulty by selecting coroners from among medical men; and there is no doubt that the administration of criminal justice might be promoted thereby.* Every ...
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Excerpt from Elements of Medical Jurisprudence, Vol. 2 The duties Of this Office are imperfectly understood, and often most negligently performed. The individuals appointed are frequently unfit for the situation, both from habits and education, while the jury are too commonly desirous Of hurry ing through the investigation. It has been proposed to remedy the first difficulty by selecting coroners from among medical men; and there is no doubt that the administration of criminal justice might be promoted thereby.* Every inquest involves a medical question, and even although the case may at the first glance appear so clear and the facts so certain as hardly to need a professional examination, yet before the trial is ended, there will Often be extreme regret that a dissection had not been made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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