co, Ss - 8 J A MANUAL OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE: bూసా GSGSCSCSCSCSCSCSCSCSCSCSCSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS A MANUAL OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE FOR INDIA, Ву J. В. Gіввомs Lт. Соц., І. м. s. Civil Surgeon, Æowrah. Formerly Aolice and Coroner's Surgeon, Calcutta, and Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the Medical College, Calcutta. We are very glad to receive a copy of A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for India by Lt.-Col. J. B. Gibbons, 1. M. s. The want of a suitable textbook on Medical Jurisprudence for India have been long felt by Indian medical students and practitioners, and we believe the publication of this book will remove this long-felt want. Ganerally speaking, Medical books may be divided into two classes. One class of books are written by men who may be very learned, but who are sadly deficient in practical knowledge. These books are mere compilations with some additions and alterations here and there, which may render them useful to some extent, but they add nothing original to the store-house of Medical literature, though the number of such books is awfully large. There is another class of books which are written by men who have devoted a considerable portion of their time in investigating a subject on which they write, and whose practical knowledge, gleaned from long experience, is backed by a sound theoretical knowledge. It is the books of this class which contribute to the progress of Medical science. These are unquestionably superior to the former class of books; and we book under review belongs to this latter class. In our opinion the author is thoroughly qualified to write on Medical Jurisprudence. He was for many years Professor ം?" Medical Jurisprudence in the Medical College, Calcutta, and as a Police Surgeon of Calcutta, he was long connected with the Calcutta Morgue, cne of the best known of its kind in the world ; and he has embodied in his book his own experience together with the experience of his distinguished predecessors like Dr. Mackenjie and others. Between such . a book and a book based on mere theoretical knowledge there can be no comparison whatever. * Hitherto for want of a suitable text book on Indian Medical Jurisprudence both the students and practitioners had to rely on European works on the same subject. It is useless to say that this state of things was not at all satisfac- tory. For in writing a book on this subject for use in India it should always be borne in mind that the Indians are * not in every respect the same as the Europeans, and that some allowance + should be made for the difference of the soil and climate, and the constitution of the people. The constitution and the power of endurance of a European who is born and brought up. in a cold climate, lives on animal food, and is compelled to wage a lifelong * struggle for existence, vastly differ from those of an Indian, who is born and brought up in a tropical country, lives" on vegitables, and leads a comparative are extremely glad to find that the ly easy life. But this difference was
