The Case of the Deadly Toy

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Some seven or eight years ago I met Dr. Lester Adelson when I attended a series of lectures given on legal medicine. He was then working under my good friend, Dr. Richard Ford, head of the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard. Since that date I have watched Dr. Adelson’s career with great interest. He is at the moment with Dr. Samuel Gerber, the coroner of Cuyahoga County in Cleveland.

I can’t speak too highly of Dr. Adelson’s ability, character and achievements, but he doesn’t want me to speak of these. He wants me to tell something of the importance of legal medicine and what it means.

It is a mistake to believe that the forensic pathologist is always concerned with murder. It is a mistake to believe that autopsies are only for the dead. They are to help the living. There is another side to legal medicine. The courtroom side. It is a great mistake to let the highly partisan medical witness sway a jury to his way of thinking. The real scientist is never partisan.

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