Surgeons at the Bailey: English Forensic Medicine to 1878

by Thomas Rogers Forbes

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Forbes, Thomas Rogers. Surgeons at the Bailey: English forensic medicine to 1878. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985 . xiii, 255 pp. Publisher's blue cloth fine in very good dust jacket with sunned spine. Internally clean. 25. * A study documenting the bleak realities of marital breakdown in England before the passage of the landmark Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857. Through a series of detailed narrative case studies drawn from records of the ecclesiastical

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