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A. Lincoln, Esquire : a shrewd, sophisticated lawyer in his time / Allen D. Spiegel.
- Title
- A. Lincoln, Esquire : a shrewd, sophisticated lawyer in his time / Allen D. Spiegel.
- Author
- Spiegel, Allen D.
- Publication
- Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | KF368.L52 S68 2002 | Off-site | |
| Text | Request in advance | KF368.L52 S68 2002x | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 372 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-354) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Reverence for the laws : a political religion -- A. Lincoln, Esquire : the evolution of a lawyer. John A. Lupton, the Lincoln legal papers : a documentary history of the law practice of Abraham Lincoln, 1836-1861 -- Lincoln's client assaulted : he questioned his physician's medical school graduation -- Fired for incompetency : asylum's medical superintendent sues -- Lincoln secures a charter for a homeopathic medical school -- Victorian lawyers, improperly healed fractures, and America's first medical malpractice crisis, 1835-1865 -- Defense lawyer, A. Lincoln, uses chicken bones in a malpractice case -- Broken wrist without due care : Lincoln defends the physician -- Lincoln's cases of sex, slander and sundry suits -- Abraham and Mary Lincoln and insanity in the courtroom -- Chloroform induced insanity defense confounds lawyer Lincoln -- Lincoln's client refuses to pay the doctor's bill for services -- Lincoln politically selects the medical expert on insanity.
- ISBN
- 0865547394 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001005114
- OCLC
- 47849398
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library