1. Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Review of the Coroner Service. Report of the Working Party (Dublin, 2000).
2. For the position in England and Wales, see especially Ian A. Burney, Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest, 1830–1926 (Baltimore, 2000), Ch. 4.
3. For Wakley’s interest in the Coronership and medical witnessing, see especially Elizabeth Cawthon, ‘Thomas Wakley and the medical coronership: Occupational death and the judicial process’, Medical History, 30 (1986), pp. 191–202, and Burney, Bodies of Evidence, especially Ch. 1 and pp. 107–10. So far as I am aware, no serious study exists of Arthur Jacob as a medical reformer and publicist.
4. William Dease, Remarks on Medical Jurisprudence, Intended for the General Information of Juries and Young Surgeons (Dublin, 1793), pp. 29, 31. Dease described himself as ‘Surgeon to the United hospitals of St. Nicholas and St. Catherine [Dublin]’.
5. For the early history of medical evidence in coroners’ inquests and criminal trials in London, see especially Thomas R. Forbes, ‘Crowner’s quest’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 68 (1978), pp. 1–52