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4 Medico-Legal & Criminological Rev. 1 (1936)

handle is hein.journals/medlgjr4 and id is 1 raw text is: THE MEDICOLEGAL AND CRIMINOLOGICAL REVIEW VOL. IV. PART I. JANUARY, 1936 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS FORENSIC CHEMISTRY IN RELATION TO MEDICINE* By C. AINSWORTH MITCHELL, M.A., D.Sc., F.I.C. FOR the first time in the history of the Society a President has been chosen from outside the ranks of the medical or legal pro- fessions, and while I greatly appreciate the personal honour you have paid me, I feel that a great honour has also been paid to the profession of chemistry to which I belong. It is fitting, therefore, that in my presidential address I should deal with the relation that forensic chemistry bears to forensic medicine and give some outline of the directions in which chemistry is contribut- ing its share to the scientific investigation of crime. A restricted outlook in any science belongs to the past. Astronomy has soared through the higher mathematics into the realms of metaphysics, chemistry is merging into physics, and medicine is fast becoming little more than a branch of applied biochemistry. With this enlargement of the scope of the sciences has come intensive specialization. Few can now hope to master more than one or two branches of a particular science and to have a nodding acquaintance with the rest. At the beginning of last century conditions were very different, for in those days any well-educated person could, in a few years, acquire a re- spectable knowledge of the current explanations of all natural phenomena. Every medical man was reputed to have this know- ledge and was looked up to as the living epitome of all the sciences. As regards chemistry there was some justification for * Delivered on October 24, 1935, at Manson House, Portland Place.

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