RT Journal
T1 MEdical jurisprudence, forensic medicine and toxicology.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD December 25
VO LIII
IS 26
SP 2173
OP 2173
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02550260033011
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550260033011
AB The third volume of this handbook treats of the medicolegal relations of the special senses, of insanity and mental unsoundness, of marriage and divorce, of the x-rays, and of blood, and other stains and of the hair. The medicolegal relations of insurance also receive a special chapter. The volume is introduced by an extensive list of cases cited in the volume. As in the previous volumes, the work is painstaking and exhaustive. Insanity is treated in two articles, one by E. D. Fisher from a medical point of view and the other by T. C. Becker and C. A. Boston from the legal side. The latter article discusses the relations of mental unsoundness to testamentary capacity and to contracts and other business relations as well as to criminal responsibility. The statutes relating to the care and custody of incompetent persons are given in a separate article. The scientific portion