Elements of medical jurisprudence; or, A succinct and compendious description of such tokens in the human body as are requisite to determine the judgment of a coroner, and courts of law, in cases of divorce, rape, murder, &c : To which are added, Directions for preserving the public health / [Samuel Farr].

  • Farr, Samuel, 1741-1795.
Date:
1814
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Credit: Elements of medical jurisprudence; or, A succinct and compendious description of such tokens in the human body as are requisite to determine the judgment of a coroner, and courts of law, in cases of divorce, rape, murder, &c : To which are added, Directions for preserving the public health / [Samuel Farr]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    21 The right of primogeniture must wins how be determined in natural births, by ed. dee that which was first born into the world, and which must be decided by the by-standers. Ifthe delivery, how- ever, be made by a passage efiected by art, the choice depending on the will ofthe surgeon, no proper determina- tion can possibly be made. In the affair of suppositious births, ais two questions occur, according as the birth is performed or not. In the _ former case, a physician may judge, — Ist. From those signs in the mother, signs to which distinguish her having been de- peas livered of a child. 2d. From those signs which refer to her incapacity of conception. 3d. From signs of im- potency in the father. 4th. From “the umbilical cord in the child not ap- pearing as of one just delivered. Some persons look upon the dissimilitude to the parents to be a sign, but this must be very fallacious. Where the | or ae suppositious