1863 GRIJS, Carolus F. M. de (1832 – 1902)
Geregtelijke geneeskunde, uit het Chineesch vertaald.
Translation into Dutch of the 13th century Chinese text on forensic medicine entitled Xiyuan lu jizheng huizuan. de Grijs's translation was retranslated into German by Henry Breitenstein as Gerichtliche Medizin der Ch…
GMN 10531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12724
1867 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879)
Etude médico-légale et clinique sur l’empoisonnement.
GMN 1745 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3108
1868 DRAGENDORFF, Georg Johann Noel (1836 – 1898)
Die gerichtlich-chemische Ermittelung von Giften in Nahrungsmitteln, Luftgemischen, Speiseresten, Körpertheilen, etc.
Dragendorff, Professor of Pharmacy at Dorpat, Marburg, and Vienna, contributed an important book on forensic chemistry. He was responsible for the introduction of several methods for the detection of poisons in the hu…
GMN 1746 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3112
1870 CHEEVERS, Norman (1818 – 1886)
A manual of medical jurisprudence for India, including the outline of a history of crime against the person in India.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11623 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13823
1870 TARDIEU, Auguste Ambroise (1818 – 1879)
Étude médico-légale sur la pendaison, la strangulation, les suffocations.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15970
1872 DRAGENDORFF, Georg Johann Noel (1836 – 1898)
Beiträge zur gerichtlichen Chemie einzelner organischer Gifte.
GMN 1747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3114
1872 VAN DE WARKER, Edward Ely (1841 – 1910)
The detection of criminal abortion, and a study of foeticidal drugs.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15431
1874 PEUGNET, Eugène (1843 – 1879)
The nature of gunshot wounds of the abdomen, and their treatment: Based on a review of the case of the late James Fisk, Jr., in its medico-legal aspects.
Peugnet argued that over-medication, and not the pistol shot, caused Fisk's death. Peugnet, a surgeon who had served in the American Civil War, died at the early age of 43, having been struck by a locomotive while abs…
GMN 7848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10020
1875 KRAFFT-EBING, Richard Freiherr von (1840 – 1902)
Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Psychopathologie.
GMN 1748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3117
1875 ARLT, Carl Ferdinand von (1812 – 1887)
Ueber die Verletzungen des Auges mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deren gerichtsärztliche Würdigung.
English translation by Charles S. Turnbull as Injuries of the eye and their medico-legal aspect. (Philadelpha. 1878). Digital facsimile of the 1875 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1878 edition f…
GMN 5912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6796
1877 –1878 HOFMANN, Eduard von (1837 – 1897)
Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin.
An important German work on the subject. Hofmann’s book went through many editions and was translated into several European languages.
GMN 1749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3121
1882 MOREAU, Paul [Moreau de Tours] (1844 – 1908)
De l’homicide commis par les enfants.
Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.
GMN 11160 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13357
1883 BELL, Alexander Graham (1847 – 1922)
Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10352
1886 KRAFFT-EBING, Richard Freiherr von (1840 – 1902)
Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.
Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…
GMN 4944 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6228
1891 WRIGHT, Jarvis Sherman (1834 – 1901)
Suggestions to the medical witness.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15432
1893 MANN, John Dixon (1840 – 1912)
Forensic medicine and toxicology.
GMN 1750 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3124
1894 MÉGNIN, Jean Pierre (1828 – 1905)
La faune des cadavres: Application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13770 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16055
1895 BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
La mort et la mort subite.
Brouardel was professor of forensic medicine, Paris. He was to a great extent responsible for the development of that subject in France; he instituted courses of practical instruction at the Paris morgue, and wrote se…
GMN 1751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3126
1895 HIS, Wilhelm Sr. (1831 – 1904)
Anatomische Forschungen über Johann Sebastian Bach's Gebeine und Anlitz nebst Bemerkungen über dessen Bilder. Abh. Sächs. Ges. Wiss., 22/5.
To authenticate the remains of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm His senior performed one of the earliest examples of scientific facial reconstructions, reconstructing the soft tissues onto a plaster cast of the skull us…
GMN 7408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9580
1896 BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
Les asphyxies par les gaz, les vapeurs et les anesthésiques.
GMN 9905 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12093
1896 KÖNIG, Carl Georg Walter (1859 – 1936)
14 Photographien mit Röntgen-strahlen aufgenommen im physikaloschen Verein zu Frankfurt A. M.
This collection of x-ray photographs published within a few months of Röntgen's discovery includes applications in archaeology and anthropology (x-rays of mummies) and forensic medicine (for the investigation of gunsh…
GMN 10608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12801
1897 BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
L’infanticide.
GMN 1752 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3128
1897 BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
La pendaison, la strangulation, la suffocation, la submersion.
GMN 1753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3130
1897 BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
Les explosifs, les explosions au point de vue médico-légal.
GMN 9903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12091
1898 AMOËDO Y VALDES, Oscar (1863 – 1945)
L'art dentaire en médecine légale.
The first comprehensive text on forensic dentistry, dedicated by Amoëdo to his teacher, Brouardel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12690
1901 UHLENHUTH, Paul Theodor (1870 – 1957)
Eine Methode zur Unterscheidung der verschiedenen Blutarten, im besonderen zum differentialdiagnostischen Nachweise des Menschenblutes.
Uhlenhuth was the first to use precipitins in medico-legal tests for human blood.
GMN 1754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3133
1901 BROUARDEL, Paul Camille Hippolyte (1837 – 1906)
L'Avortement
GMN 9904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12092
1903 LETULLE, Maurice Éléonor Joseph Lucien (1853 – 1929)
La pratique des autopsies.
Considered the most beautiful book on autopsies. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.
GMN 11132 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13328
1904 HAMMURABI, King of Babylon (-1792 – -1750); HARPER, Robert Francis (1864 – 1914)
The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 BCE. Autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections, and erasures, with map, frontispiece, and photograph of text by Robert Francis Harper.
The Code of Hammurabi was found among the cuneiform tablets of the library of Ashurbanipal. It is now in the Louvre. It was first published in Scheil, "Textes élamites-sémitiques. Deuxième série: accompagné de 20 plan…
GMN 1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8605
1905 MERCIER, Charles Arthur (1852 – 1919)
Criminal responsibility.
GMN 1755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3137
1908 EWENS, George Francis William
Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.
Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10422
1908 BEDIN, Alphonse (1878 – )
La photographie au laboratoire de médecine légale de l'Université de Nancy.
iIlustrated with 77 photographs, Bedin's work describes the methods and practices of forensic photography developed at Nancy between 1905 and 1908. The work is divided into two parts: The first part contains four chap…
GMN 12898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15145
1921 OTTENBERG, Reuben (1882 – 1959)
Medicolegal application of human blood grouping.
An important series of papers on blood-grouping and the jurisprudence of paternity. Ottenberg performed the first matched-blood transfusion.
GMN 1756 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3145
1950 MCINDOE, Sir Archibald Hector (1900 – 1960); FRANCESCHETTI, Adolphe (1896 – 1968)
Reciprocal skin homografts in a medico-legal case of familial identification of exchanged identical twins.
Skin grafting used to decide the relationship of identical twins who had been accidentally separated at birth.
GMN 1757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3151
1962 KEMPE, C. Henry (Karl Heinz Kempe) (1922 – 1984); SILVERMAN, Frederick N. (1914 – 2006); STEELE, Brandt F. (1908 – 2005); DROEGEMUELLER, William; SILVER, Henry K. (1918 – 1991)
The battered-child syndrome.
"In 1962, Dr. C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues led the identification and recognition of child abuse with the defining paper, The Battered Child Syndrome. This paper was regarded as the single most significant event …
GMN 8893 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11071
1962 KROGMAN, Wilton Marion (1903 – 1987)
The human skeleton in forensic medicine.
GMN 9887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12075
1968 ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )
The trial of the assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and law in the gilded age.
GMN 7928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10101
1968 WALKER, Nigel (1917 – 2014)
Crime and insanity in England. Volume one: The historical perspective. (All published.)
GMN 11751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13951
1973 NĖMEC, Jaroslav (1910 – 1992)
International bibliography of the history of legal medicine.
GMN 8730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10908
1976 NĖMEC, Jaroslav (1910 – 1992)
Highlights in medicolegal relations. Revised & enlarged ed.
GMN 1757.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3154
1977 WEST, Donald James (1924 – ); WALK, Alexander (1901 – 1982)
Daniel McNaughton: His trial and the aftermath, edited by Donald J. West and Alexander Walk.
A collective work edited by West and Walk.
GMN 7074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9241
1981 BROTHWELL, Donald Reginald (1933 – 2016)
Digging up bones: The excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains. Third edition.
GMN 8033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10209
1985 FORBES, Thomas Rogers (1911 – 1988)
Surgeons at the Bailey. English forensic medicine to 1878.
GMN 1757.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3160
1985 JEFFRIES, Sir Alec John (1950 – ); WILSON, Victoria; THEIN, Swee Lay
Individual-specific 'fingerprints' of human DNA.
Jeffreys and associates discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling.
GMN 13736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16020
1985 JEFFRIES, Sir Alec John (1950 – ); WILSON, Victoria; THEIN, Swee Lay
Hypervariable 'minisatellite regions in human DNA.
Jeffries and team discovered DNA fingerprinting, also called DNA profiling. This was the first publication of the method.
GMN 13737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16021
1986 FERNANDO, P. Ravindra
Bibliography of publications in legal medicine & forensic sciences relating to Sri Lanka 1811 - 1984.
GMN 14070 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16381
1989 SHATZMILLER, Joseph (1936 – )
Médecine et justice en Provence médiévale: Documents de Manosque, 1262-1348.
GMN 8452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10629
1989 COLAIZZI, Janet (1936 – )
Homicidal insanity, 1800-1985.
"Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatris…
GMN 9805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11993
1993 MOHR, James C.
Doctors and the law: Medical jurisprudence in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 8000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10176
1994 CLARK, Michael; CRAWFORD, Catherine
Legal medicine in history. Edited by Michael Clark and Catherine Crawford.
GMN 12036 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14244
