Bohn, J. De renunciatione vulnerum; seu, Vulnerum lethalium examen, exponens horum formalitatem & causas, tam in genere, quam in specie ac per singulas corporis partes (1689).
This important medico-legal work on fatal injuries is considered to be the best. Johannes Bohn (1640-1718) focused this original work on wounds, dividing them into those wounds which were fatal by themselves and those which were fatal through accidental circumstances. Bohn was very progressive for his day, demanding obligatory and complete autopsies, medical control of prisons, and standards for "expertise." Unlike many of his contemporaries, he also disbelieved in magic and demon possession.
(Sources: Garrison &
Morton; E.H. Ackerknecht's Legal Medicine in Transition in Ciba Symposium 1951
(11:1296))