Medico-Legal Studies (Volume 3) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1893. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... RETIRING ADDRESS. BY CLARK BELL, ESQ., AS PRESIDENT OP THE MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY. To The Fellows Of The Medico-legal Society: It is twenty years last November (1891) that I was elected to the Presidency of this body, and it may not be uninteresting in the few words I shall say in introducing my successor, to give a retrospect of the progress of the Science of Legal Medicine in the intervening years, and touch on the influence of the Medico-Legal Society upon the growth of public interest in its advancement during that period. I found the Society then a small but earnest group of men, who had gathered around that center to awaken an interest in the professions of Law, Chemistry and Medicine, in the more careful study of the science of Medical Jurisprudence, and to bring the professions of Law and Medicine, then standing aloof and at arms length from each other, into more intimate personal and social relations, and all these professions united in the the Council Board of a body formed to become earnest searchers after the truth. Of the early names that were gathered into this work, but few survive. Dr. Finnell, the first President, Dr. Stephen Rogers, who interested me and brought me into the body, have passed into eternal rest. Prof. Frank Hamilton, whom I nominated as my successor in 1875, after my first three years of service, and Dr. Charles S. Wood, who later succeeded as President, have also passed away. There still survive Hon. Jacob F. Miller, who followed Dr. Finnell as President of the So Delivered January 13, 1892. ciety, Hon. Geo. H. Yeaman, who succeeded Dr. Hamiltom, Prof. R. Ogden Doremus, and Dr. Isaac Lewis Peet, who have each served terms as President, but the major part of the time since 18711 have led the students who have kept the fires burning...