1825 LOWELL, Charles (1793 – 1858)

Report of the trial of an action: Charles Lowell against John Faxon and Micajah Hawks, doctors of medicine, defendants, for malpractice in the capacity of physicians and surgeons: At the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, holden at Machias for the county of Washington, June term, 1824, before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jun., justice of the court.

A detailed narrative on the trial based on the transcript. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

GMN 11730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13931

1826 WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856)

A letter to the Hon. Isaac Parker, chief justice of the Supreme court of the state of Massachusetts, containing remarks on the dislocation of the hip joint, occasioned by the publication of a trial which took place at Machias, in the state of Maine, June, 1824. By John C. Warren. With an appendix of documents from the trial necessary to illustrate the history of the case.

This work, illustrated with 5 plates, contains several clear and minute descriptions of dislocation of the hip joint. In the course of the monograph Warrenproved the possibility of a type of dislocation that was denie…

GMN 11728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13929

1860 ELWELL, John Johnson (1820 – 1900)

A medico-legal treatise on malpractice and medical evidence, comprising the elements of medical jurisprudence.

The first treatise on malpractice published in the United States and the first book to provide observations on the physician as an expert witness in malpractice cases. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at …

GMN 14204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16520

1910 SPAULDING, James Alfred (1846 – 1938)

Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes: A celebrated malpractice suit in Maine.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 11729 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13930

1990 DE VILLE, Kenneth

Medical malpractice in nineteenth-century America: Origins and legacy.

GMN 11265 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13462

2018 WOLF, Jacqueline H.

Cesarean section: An American history of risk, technology, and consequence.

A study of the sharp increase in cesarean births (up to 25%) in the U.S. during the 2nd half of the 20th century, as a result of technologization of medicine and, consequently, obstreticians' weakened skills, the malp…

GMN 10622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12815