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Excerpt from A Handbook of the Practice of Forensic Medicine, Based Upon Personal Experience, Vol. 4 With these views Professor Casper commenced his professional career, and every work which has fallen from his pen has proved how steadily, throughout his long life, he acted up to them, and the more learning and knowledge of the subject we bring to the investigation, the more evidently do we see how carefully he has avoided mere novelty, how diligently and laboriously he has accumulated fresh evidence in favour of what was tried and found good in the olden views, and how sedulously he has set aside whatever was injurious or unpractical, whether it were new or old. I cannot omit mentioning that, when speaking in this work of William Lawrence, Casper takes the opportunity of paying a high compliment to the cordiality and true-heartedness of the English generally, in spite of their apparently cold and inaccessible exteriorfi' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.