Canon, written by Mordechai bar Elia in a rabbinical hand, was formerly in the library of Prince Dietrichstein of Nikolsburg.]]> Canon]]> Rare Books RG16.B8 F876 ]]> View the online catalog record.

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Fish presented his findings to the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society at its meeting on February 6, 1884, as “The external appearance of pistol-shot wounds,” and described some of results of his experiments:
I hope to demonstrate … that in pistol and revolver shots these gases of explosion, instead of passing with the ball through the skin, expend the greater part of their force upon the tissues at a point outside of the opening made by the ball. I can see that some particles of powder may cling to the ball and explode after passing through the skin. For, in firing a Colt’s revolver at twenty-eight inches, several grains of powder passed, probably with the ball, through blotting paper, and sprinkled the ash, left after burning, around the hole made by the ball in a second sheet of paper which was placed four inches behind the first one."

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Medical jurisprudence was the required text for legal medicine courses at Harvard as early as 1858, and it was still in use in 1904. The copy displayed here belonged to Barker Brooks Kent (1844-1873), a graduate of the Medical School in 1869, and was presumably used during his course work. The pages displayed concern the insanity plea and the M'Naughten rule.
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They entertain very limited views of medicine, who suppose its objects and duties are confined exclusively to the knowledge and cure of diseases. Our science was intended to render other services to society. It was designed to extend its benefits to the protection of property and life, and to detect fraud and guilt in many of their forms. This honour has been conferred upon it by the bench and the bar, in all civilized countries both in ancient and modern times. That part of our science, which qualifies us to discharge these important civil duties, has been called medical jurisprudence…. The lectures you are about to attend upon … contain the rudiments of all that is necessary for you to know in order to render you competent witnesses in a court of justice.
 
]]> The Research on Fatal Highway Collisions did print two volumes of its research papers and also this report by Murray D. Segal to the Highway Research Board. The plate shows the imprint of a license plate on a utility pole, indicating the point, direction, attitude, and height of the collision impact.
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in fatal highway collisions, [1962].
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Highlights of the Magrath Library include rare trial accounts, works on criminology, toxicology, and poisoning, including a 15th century manuscript of Petrus de Abano’s De venenis, and a collection of unique material concerning Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield, including poems written by Guiteau while in prison, his own copy of his autobiographical work The truth and the removal, and the diary of his spiritual counselor, William Watkin Hicks.
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This series of reports derives from the work at Béthune and here Cannon and Fraser present recommendations for keeping shocked patients warm and preparing them for surgery.

The reports of the Special Investigation Committee were reprinted in issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association in February and March 1918.

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and Allied Conditions. No. 2. Investigation of the Nature and Treatment
of Wound Shock and Allied Conditions
([London] : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1917)
]]> Late in his life, Roger I. Lee published these extracts from letters written almost daily to his then fiancée, Ella Lowell Lyman. They letters give a vivid portrayal of the ordinary experiences of camp life at Base Hospital No. 5.
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]]> Dedication exercises of the Oscar C. Tugo Circle, Pasteur & Longwood Avenues, Boston, October 18, 1921. Boston : [s.n.], 1922 (Boston : Merrymount Press) 33 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.]]> ]]>
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]]> ]]> "Those most competent to judge in this case have long since decided that I discovered the principle of anaesthesia, verified it by experiments on my own person, and by my prescription, also, made the application of it to surgery, in the highest sense of that term."

The passage displayed here lists Jackson’s history with anesthesia starting with the winter of 1841-1842.
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]]> Channing, Walter, 1786-1876. A treatise on etherization in childbirth. Illustrated by five hundred and eighty-one cases. By Walter Channing ... ]]> Hayward here outlines some of the unsuccessful cases of inhalation from the hospital and also his private practice, as more became known about the use of ether and the means of administering it.
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