First edition of an influential work on forensic medicine by Johannes Bohn (1640-1666), a Leipzig professor of anatomy and one of the founders of forensic medicine.
The present work "was of great importance at his time, and distinguished ante- and postmortem wounds and wounds deadly per se (per se seu absolute lethalia) from accidental factors (ca accidenc lethalia). He was in favour of complete medicolegal autopsies instead of wound inspection and described procedures to be followed" (Madea).
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First edition of a foundational work of forensic medicine
Johannnes Bohn. De renunciatione vulnerum seu vulnerum lethalium examen, exponenshorum Formalitatem & Causas, tam in genere, quam in Specie ac per singulas Corporis partes.
Leipzig, printed by Christoph Fleischer for Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1689.