Chapter II: Part II: Introduction 151

Of Medical Evidence generally 153

Of Marriage 168

Of Divorce or Nullity 176

Various questions connected with the foregoing subjects,
elucidated by Physiological remarks 179

I. Of Ages, especially that of puberty 179

II. Of Impotence and Sterility 197

1. Of Impotence 197

1. Organic Causes of Impotence 197

In Males 197

In Females 206

2. Functional causes of Impotence 208

3. Moral causes of Impotence 210

2. Of Sterility 212

1. Organic causes 212

2. Functional causes 212

III. Of the Legitimacy of Children 215

Supposititious Children 219

Tenant to the Courtesey 223

Of Monsters and Hermaphrodites legally considered 227

Physiological illustrations connected with the foregoing
subjects 230

Of Conception and Utero-gestation 230

Of Parturition or Delivery 241

1. Whether a woman can be delivered during a state of
insensibility, and remain unconscious of the event? 243

2. How far the term of Utero-gestation can be shortened,
to be compatible with the life (viabilité) of the
offspring? 243

3. Whether to any, and to what probable extent, the
natural term of Utero-gestation can be protracted? 245

4. What is the value of those signs by which we seek to
establish the fact of a recent delivery? 249

5. Are there any, and what diseases, whose effects may
be mistaken for traces of a recent delivery? 254

6. Can we determine by any signs whether a woman has
ever borne a child, although at a period remote from that
of the examination? 256

7. What are the earliest and latest periods of life, at
which women are capable of child-bearing? 256

8. What is the possible number of children that can be
produced at one birth? 259

9. Is super-fœtation possible, and under what
circumstances, and at what period of gestation can a
second conception take place? 260

10. What are the causes of Abortion 269

11. Under what circumstances, and by what means, is it
morally, legally, and medically proper, to induce
premature labour? 271

12. What circumstances will justify the Cæsarean
operation, and of what value is the section of the
Symphysis Pubis, or Sigaultian operation? 274

Of Extra-uterine Conception 281

Of Hermaphrodites 283

Of Idiots and Lunatics 289

Of Lunatic Asylums 304

Medical and Physiological Illustrations of Insanity 307

1. Whether the person is actually insane, and if so, what
are the proofs of his derangement? 317

2. Whether the proofs are of such a nature as to suffer
the individual, with propriety, to retain his liberty, and
enjoy his property? 321

3. Whether there has been any lucid interval, and of what
duration? 322

4. Whether there is any probable chance of recovery; and
in case of convalescence, whether the cure is likely to be
permanent? 323

Of Nuisances, legally, medically, and chemically considered 330

1. Of those manufactories, during whose operation gaseous
effluvia, the products of _fermentation_, or
_putrefaction_, escape into the atmosphere, and are either
noxious from their effects on animals, or insufferable
from the noisomeness of their smell. 330

2. Of those in which, _by the action of fire_, various
noxious principles are evolved. 330

3. Of those which yield waste liquids that poison the
neighbouring springs and streams. 330

4. Of those trades, whose pursuit is necessarily
accompanied with great noise. 330

Of Impositions 355

Feigned or Simulated diseases 355

Insanity 359

Somnolency 359

Syncope 360

Epilepsy 361

Hysteria 362

Shaking Palsy 362

Fever 364

Dropsy 364

Jaundice 365

Hæmophthysis 365

Vomiting of Blood 365

Vomiting of Urine 365

Bloody Urine 365

Incontinence of Urine 366

Gravel and Stone 366

Alvine Concretions 367

Abstinence from Food 368

Deafness and Dumbness 370

Blindness 371

Ophthalmia 372

Ulcers, &c. 372

Hernia 373

Of the Adulteration of Food 374

Bread 375

Beer 377

Milk 378

Policy of Insurance on Lives 381

Survivorship 388