| Description Of Item | Title as given on volume is: 'The Praelectiones of Andrew Duncan MD on the Theory of Medicine Delivered at Edinburgh in 1792-93 Abridged Volume 2nd'. The volume contains lectures 1-31 of 'Part III - Medical Jurisprudence' and is divided into four headings: 'Concerning Questinos medico-legales which come before Criminal Courts' with the further headings under homicide - inspections of the body, wounds, contusions, hanging, drowning, suffocation, poison, child murder, abortion and rape; 'Concerning questions before Civil Courts' with the further headings under insanity - mania, melancholia, idiotism, pregnancy, delivery, suppositious birth, alleged diseases; 'Concerning questions before Consistorial courts' with the further headings impotence in men, sterility in women, hermaphrodites, venereal infection; and 'Concerning Questions with regard to Medical Police' with the further headings air, water, food, exercise, contagion, prisons, hospitals and burial of the dead. Bookplate of Alexander Robertson MD on front flyleaf and inscribed 'Ex Libris Alexr Robertson Edinburgi - presented by Dr Fitzpatrick'. |