Legal medicine
POILROUX, Jacques.
Traité de médecine légale criminelle...
Paris: Levrault, 1834.
8vo (210 × 140 mm.), pp. [iv], xxix, [i], 464, [4]. Uncut in the original yellow paper wrappers, paper spine label lettered in manuscript. Spine slightly worn. Small old library stamp to verso of title, shelf-label (erased) to front pastedown. An excellent copy.
First edition, rare, of this very comprehensive (and early) treatise on medicine in law. It is written from the perspective of a practising doctor (Poiloux worked in the Basse-Alpes region of France) and contains numeorous first hand accounts of medical evidence in police and criminal proceedings. Its contents include consideration of the corpse, evidence of a variety of violent deaths, suicide and infanticide. There is a lengthy chapter on the evidence of poisoning, another on the evidence of wounds, and a final chapter on gynaecological/obstetric evidence. It was reprinted in 1837.
Not in COPAC, OCLC lists copies at University of Montreal and University of Virginia Law Library. Not in RLG.
£750.00
US$1490.92*
* Given as a guide only. Based on an exchange rate of £1 = US$1.987896 for the day 5 July 2008 but liable to fluctuate.
5 July 2008