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Excerpt from Lectures on Topics Connected With Medical Jurisprudence, Delivered Before the Medical Department of the University of Vermont: April, 1881, Reported Stenographically by Summer Gleason and Chas. H. Nichols and Printed for the Use of the Medical Class
While every man in the community can be compelled to attend court as a witness in any case in which either party thinks proper to summon him, whether he knows anything about the case or not and although a physician or a surgeon like any other man may be brought into court as a witness, and compelled to attend there in response to a subpoena, and to state all material facts within his personal knowledge, he is not obliged to testify to Opinions, or to give what I have at tempted to define to you as expert testimony. A physician has a right, if he pleases, in response to inquiries Of that sort, to decline to express opinions. He must judge for himself whether he has sufficient acquaintance with the subject whether he possesses an Opinion that he is willing to swear to. 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.
