Excerpt from A d104-Book of Legal Medicine This volume is prepared and published, primarily, as a help to medical students interested in Legal Medicine, but it is adapted as well to the needs of practitioners who wish to have the latest advances in Medical Jurisprudence at their service. The writer has ventured to cite illustrative cases for his text from the standard treatises of Forensic Medicine, and to these authors he desires to express his obligations; these he has supplemented with details from his own personal experience, which has been exceptionally full during the past twenty-eight years, as a medical examiner for the city of Boston, his investigations having comprised during that period over eight thousand deaths, under a suspicion of violence. The departments of Toxicology and of the Medico-legal Relations of Psychiatry have been purposely omitted from the volume, inasmuch as they have acquired an importance deserving, in each instance, independent treatment by specialists. The author makes no apology for limiting himself to Massachusetts Statutes in his citations of the law, believing, as he does, that these citations represent the most progressive and most intelligent expression of modern jurisprudence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.