Punch,  62 (1872), 44.

Doctors in Court

Anon

Genre:

Notes

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Language, Crime


    Thinks that 'Medical men, experts and others, in the witness-box, are unfortunately apt to use technical terms for which there are no equivalents in plain English'. Agrees with judges for rejecting such incoherent witnesses, adding that 'There are no hard words of phrases, of which the use, by Judges or Counsel, is sometimes unavoidable in law'.



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