In French marine law. Stranding. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 12, s. 13, no. L … [Read more...] about ECHOUEMENT
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EBRIETY
In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Drunkenness; alcoholic intoxication. Com. v. Whitney, 11 Cush. (Mass.) 479. Ecce modo mirnm, quod foemina fert breve regis, non nominando viram, con junctum robore legis. Co. Litt. 1326. Behold indeed, a wonder! that a woman has the king's writ without naming her husband, who by law is united to her. … [Read more...] about EBRIETY
ECLAMPSIA PARTURIENTIUM
med. jur. The name of a disease accompanied by apoplectic convulsions, and which produces aberration of mind at childbirth. The word Eclampsia is of Greek origin Significat splenaorem fulgorem effulgentiam, et emicationem quales ex ocuIis aliquando prodeunt. Metaphorice sumitur de emicatione flammae vitalis in pubertate et aetaeis vigore. Castelli, Lex. Medic. 2. An ordinary … [Read more...] about ECLAMPSIA PARTURIENTIUM
ECCENTRICITY
In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Personal or individual peculiarities of mind and disposition which markedly distinguish the subject from the ordinary, normal, or average types of men, but do not amount to mental unsoundness or insanity. Ekiu v. McCracken, 11 Phila. (Pa.) 535. … [Read more...] about ECCENTRICITY
ECLECTIC PRACTICE
In medicine. That system followed by physicians who select their modes of practice and medicines from various schools. Webster."Without professing to understand much of medical phraseology, we suppose that the terms 'allopathic practice and legitimate business mean the ordinary method commonly adopted by the great body of learned and eminent physicians, which is taught in their … [Read more...] about ECLECTIC PRACTICE