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MEDICO-LEGAL GUIDE

FOR

DOCTORS AND LAWYERS,

EMBRACING THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS:

MEDICAL WITNESSES; MEDICAL EXPERT TESTIMONY;
INSANITY AND ITS LEGAL RELATIONS; PRIVILEGED
COMMUNICATIONS; ABORTION; CIVIL LIABILITY
OF MEDICAL MEN FOR MALPRACTICE; CRIMI-
NAL LIABÍLITY FOR MALPRACTICE; LIA-
BILITY FOR PRACTICING IN VIOLATION
OF STATUTES; DAMAGES; COMPEN.

SATION; MEDICAL ETHICS.

BY

GEORGE W.FIELD, LL. B.

BANKS & BROTHERS:
ALBANY,

NEW YORK,
473 and 475 Broadway.

144 Nassau Street. 1887.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred

and eighty-seven,

BY GEORGE WASHINGTON FIELD, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

I 1056

1887

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

MEDICAL WITNESSES.

§ 1. Compulsory attendance of.

2. The oath; and religious belief.

CHAPTER II.

MEDICAL EXPERT TESTIMONY.

§ 3. In general; the opinions'of medical men.

4. Unsatisfactory character of expert testimony.

5. Opinions of medical men as to sanity.

6. Where opinions rest upon personal examination, the

facts should be stated.

7. Governmental experts recommended.

8. Opinions of non-expert witnesses; when allowed.

9. Distinction between expert and non-expert witnesses.

CHAPTER III.

INSANITY AND ITS LEGAL RELATIONS.

§ 10. Varieties of unsoundness of mind.

11. Insanity defined and described.

12. Amentia; what it embraces.

13. Imbecility; what it embraces.