DR. BEANEYS VINDICATION

With Reflections on the Inquest Held Upon the Body of Mary LewisHaving been placed by a recent trial in the Supreme Court of this colony in an attitude of a peculiar and extremely painful nature before the world, without, as the issue demonstrates, one single excuse or justification for such treatment by those to whom I owe the infliction, it is but reasonable that I should have something to 0 say of a personal and general character. A gentleman, who is an accomplished member of the profession to which I belong, has done me the favour to furnish the public with a record of the investi gation conducted under the forms of law, and has given his analysis of the medical evidence elicited. He has also been by no means sparing in his strictures upon several of the gentlemen who were opposed to me. It is, however, not my intention to adopt a similar course. The voluminous details, though necessarily disjointed, are before the world, and will occupy a place amongst the many illus trations already existing connected with our medical jurisprudence. I propose to avoid, as far as possible, any direct reference to the medical phenomena, and to keep clear of those technical expressions which Usually crowd around such questions. It will be Obvious to every one that already too much by far has been paraded before the public gaze of matters which Should be strictly confined to the medical schools and literature. A most undue publicity has been given to physical conditions, and in SO crude a form as to demoralise rather than instruct the people, For this I hold myself free from blame. I deprecate Sincerely the baneful infliience which it must.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present