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.
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A Handbook of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology for the Use of Students and Practitioners . Nature 106, 73–74 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106073a0
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