Medical Jurisprudence. By Alfred Taylor, F. R. S., Licentiate
of the Royal College of Physicians, Member of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgeons, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Che-
mistry in Guy’s Hospital. Second American from the Third
London edition, with notes and additions by R. Eglesfeld
Griffith, M. D. Philadelphia. Lea & Blanchard.
The editing of the present American edition was among the last,
if not the very last, of the labors of the lamented Griffith, the cir-
cumstances of whose death, and a short account of whose labors
we presented to our readers in a recent number. We regret that
the crowded state of our pages forbids our doing more than simply
announcing a new edition, in which a large portion of the whole
work has been re-written, and eight new chapters added. Much
valuable matter has been introduced in the chapters on Wounds,
Infanticide, Pregnancy and Abortion, and the whole may now be
considered as one of the best expositors of the existing state of the
science both abroad and in our own country.