{"title":"How Far Can the Abuse of Drugs Be Prevented by Law?","authors":"Wippell Gadd","doi":"10.1177/1051449X1100800106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1051449X1100800106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415025,"journal":{"name":"Medico-Legal Society Transactions","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1911-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130007981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Deterrent Influence of Social and Legal Restrictions on the Medical Thought and Practice","authors":"J. Tweedy","doi":"10.1177/1051449X1100800101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1051449X1100800101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415025,"journal":{"name":"Medico-Legal Society Transactions","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1911-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117293384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The National Insurance Bill","authors":"J. Whitaker","doi":"10.1177/1051449X1100800109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1051449X1100800109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415025,"journal":{"name":"Medico-Legal Society Transactions","volume":"395 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1911-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113996259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Law and Experiment","authors":"R. Burrows","doi":"10.1177/1051449X1100800102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1051449X1100800102","url":null,"abstract":"EXPERIMENTS may be performed upon inanimate objects; upon animals; and upon human beings, either dead or alive. I will limit myself to experiments upon living human beings. The legal responsibility of a person who undertakes such experiments is a branch of the law of negligence. I do not propose to discuss the general principles of the law which regulates the liability of medical men. The Society has already heard the able and exhaustive discussion of this topic in the paper read by Dr Douglas Cowburn.] It will not be out of place, however, to remind the Society of the general rule, which was so well stated by Lord Lyndhurst in the case of R. v. Webb (I M. and R. 405). He said: \"There is no difference between a licensed physician or surgeon and a person acting as a physician or surgeon without licence. In either case, if a party having a competent degree of skill and knowledge makes an accidental mistake in his treatment of a patient, through which mistake death ensues, he is not thereby guilty of manslaughter; but if a person totally ignorant of the science of medicine takes on himself to administer a . . . . dangerous remedy to one labouring under disease, and death ensues in consequence .... then he is guilty of manslaughter.\" The same principle applies if the injury stops short of death; it also applies when the patient or his relatives bring an action for damages.","PeriodicalId":415025,"journal":{"name":"Medico-Legal Society Transactions","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1911-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126551533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Administration of the Law Relating to the Medical Inspection and Treatment of School Children","authors":"L. H. Guest","doi":"10.1177/1051449X1100800105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1051449X1100800105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415025,"journal":{"name":"Medico-Legal Society Transactions","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1911-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134039153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blood Tests","authors":"W. Smith","doi":"10.1177/1051449X1100800110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1051449X1100800110","url":null,"abstract":"As you are aware, in many criminal cases it is frequently a question of the greatest importance to determine whether stains on the clothing of an accused person, or on a knife or other weapon found in his possession, are or are not due to blood; and further, if such stains are shown to be those of blood, whether they are of human origin. This question is also frequently rendered difficult of solution by the stain being of small dimensions, or old, or on foul linen. The tests which up to quite recently have been relied upon for the determination of these questions are of three kinds-microscopical, spectroscopical, and chemical. Let me here remind you of what blood consists: microscopically it is found to be a transparent, colourless, or faintly yellow liquid, the liquor sanguinis, in which are suspended a number of minute solid bodies known as the blood corpuscles, which are either red or white, but principally the former. When drawn from the body, as seen in these two specimens, the one human and the other sheep's blood, a clotting or coagulation takes place whereby it separates into two distinct parts: (I) a clot, consisting of the fibrin hitherto held in solution, which entangles the cells, which have a tendency to gravitate to the","PeriodicalId":415025,"journal":{"name":"Medico-Legal Society Transactions","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1911-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133282569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liability for Malapraxis in Ancient Law","authors":"H. Oppenheimer","doi":"10.1177/1051449X1000700109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1051449X1000700109","url":null,"abstract":"FROM the earliest periods of time, suffering humanity has been the happy hunting-ground of ignorance and imposture. So it does not, at first sight, appear very extraordinary that from the dawn of civilisation legislators have found it necessary to safeguard the sick against ill-treatment at the hands of those who had undertaken to restore them to health and vigour. Yet if we pause and reflect, it cannot but strike us as curious that the oldest systems of law of which traces have come down to us, products as they are of an era in which human life was of no great value, should yet contain minute provisions against medical and surgical malapraxis. The explanation of this apparent incongruity will be found in the fact that the principle upon which relief was afforded has not always been the interest of the patient. Let us first turn to that country which is proverbially the cradle of human science, ancient Egypt. On the banks of the Nile the theocratic form of government was evolved to greatest perfection, and religion entered as the rule of conduct into the minutest details of social life. A subject so important as the art of healing could not well be left in the hands of the laity. The practice of the profession was restricted to a certain class of priests, called the image-bearers, who had made a thorough study of the Egyptian standard work on medicine, viz. those six out of the forty-two Sacred Books of Hermes which dealt with the body and","PeriodicalId":415025,"journal":{"name":"Medico-Legal Society Transactions","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1910-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124328636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ninth Annual General Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/03772063.1963.11486404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03772063.1963.11486404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":415025,"journal":{"name":"Medico-Legal Society Transactions","volume":"37 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1910-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131355065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}