Excerpt from Discourse
We need not trace back their philosophies far, without finding a relationship and unity, suggesting that they may have sprung from a common ancestry. Though seeming so different, they are yet closely allied. They find their point of contact - linked by a hyphen - in Medical-Jurisprudence. Nor can we easily tell which side of the hyphen is the more important. Yet it must be admitted that, to your side of it, united science is indebted for its best development. No lawyer"s library, nor any doctor"s library, is complete, which does not contain that work, which, beginning so small, has come to be so large - the admirable treatise of Doctor T. Romeyn Beck, the father of the science in America. Nor should his indebtedness to Doctor John B. Beck, of New York, his faithful brother, be forgotten.
That medical-jurisprudence should be placed on the best basis, has been made painfully conspicuous in a late case of national importance. Indeed, it is a question worthy of solemn consideration, whether it would not be better to bring the experience and practical knowledge of a board of medico-legal constitution to pass upon all cases of alleged insanity.
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