STATE MEDICINE,

COMPILED FROM THE LATEST LEGAL AND MEDICAL WORKS,

OF BECK, PARIS, CHRISTISON, FODERE, ORFILA, ETC.

CONTAINING

PART I.

MEDICAL ETHICS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES.

PART II.

LAWS RELATING TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, FROM PARIS AND FONBLANQUE,

SCULLY, WILCOCK, AND CHITTY.

PART III.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND STATE MEDICINE FROM THE MOST CELEBRATED

ANCIENT AND MODERN MEDICO-LEGAL WRITERS.

PART IV.

LAWS RELATING TO THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH-MEDICAL

POLICE-STATE MEDICINE-PUBLIC HYGIENE.

INTENDED FOR THE USE OF

LEGISLATORS, BARRISTERS, MAGISTRATES, CORONERS, PRIVATE

GENTLEMEN, JURORS, AND MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.

BY MICHAEL RYAN, M.D.,

Member of the Royal College of Physicians in London; Member of the Association of Fellows

and Licentiates of the King's and Queen's College of Physicians in Dublin; Member of

the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in London and Edinburgh; Consulting Physician to the

East London Midwifery Institution; Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence in the Medical

School, Gerrard Street, Soho Square, &c. &c.

Second Edition considerably Enlarged and Improved.

LONDON:

SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1836.

LONDON:

JOHN HADDON AND CO. DOCTORS' COMMONS.

CONTENTS.

Chap. I.

PART I.-MEDICAL ETHICS.

Origin of Medicine. Veneration for its Cultivators.

II. Medical Ethics of Hippocrates.

III. Medical Ethics of the Middle ages.

IV. Ethics of the Present age. Dr. Percival's Medi-
cal Ethics.

V. American Medical Ethics.

VI. Medical Education. Degrees. Diplomas. Ap-

pointments. Moral, Physical, and Clinical

Medicine. Rules for prescribing Medicine.

Posology, or Regulation of Doses. Action of

Medicines on the Animal Economy. Phar-

macology.

PART II.-LAWS RELATING TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

Chap. I.

Laws relating to the Medical Profession in Great

Britain and Ireland, with comments.

Chap. I.

PART III.-MEDICAL JURISPrudence.

Disqualifications for Marriage. Causes of Impo-
tence. Divorce. Hermaphrodites. Ambi-
guity of sex. Concealment of sex.

II. Utero-gestation, or Pregnancy.

III. Abortion.

IV. Delivery.

V. Prolicide, Foeticide, Infanticide.