Excerpt from The Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 4: A Journal Published Monthly in the Interest of Medicine and Surgery; July to December, 1898 A medical practitioner may be asked to make a will for a patient, or witness the signing of a will, or express an opinion as to whether or not a patient is in a fit condition to make a will, or from facts supplied to him, to give an opinion as to the state of mind in which a deceased person was when he executed his last will and testa ment. As to making a will for a patient. Though it may at times be come necessary on account of impending dissolution, a medical man should never consent, if it is possible to secure the services of a solicitor, or if not even of a friend to do the work for him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.