The physician John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856) and his co-author J. S. M. Fonblanque (1787-1865) published this three-volume work in 1823. It contains an examination of the circumstances in which medical evidence is required, a summary of the investigations needed in cases of sudden death, and a selection of historical cases.

The physician John Ayrton Paris and his co-author J. S. M. Fonblanque published this three-volume work on medical evidence in 1823.