Note 97 — INTRODUCTION.

Daniel: “Bibl. d. Staatsarznk.,” Halle, 1784, No. 107, mentions: “E. Prat, Rationarium chirurgicum, oder nothwendiges Handbuch des Wundarztes, wie er Bericht an die Obrigkeit thun soll u. s. w., aus dem Engl.,” Hamb., 1684. 4, 690. 8. The same title is reproduced by Wildberg (No. 239) in 1819, and the edition of 1684 is mentioned by Ploucquet, “Initia” (1803), Suppl. iv., 36, and “Litt. med. dig.” (1809), iii., 54, the name of the author being given as “Pratt (Elias).” This may be an early work by Ellis Pratt, but we can find no mention of it elsewhere. In the years 1734, 1761, and 1787 dissertations on abortion were defended at Edinburgh by Arnot, Harris, and Murray. Three treatises on death from suffocation by Goodwyn, Frank, and Coleman appeared in 1788-91. In 1788 S. Farr published at London his “Elements of Medical Jurisprudence,” to which Percival (“Med. Ethics,” Oxford, 1849, p. 102) justly refers as “a valuable epitome of S. F. Faselii’s “Elementa Medicinæ Forensis [Regiom., 4to, 1787], in English by Dr. Farr.”