Book I. Initial observations. First appearance of man in nature and law. The brotherhood involved in unity of origin. Man, the "lawer." The zoologic rank of man
Book II. Forensic physiology. The need and characters of a forensic physiology. Sources of forensic physiology. View of an ideal standard man. Mind-force and nerve-force. Nearer view of the nerves. The eye and its connexions. Theory of perception. Varieties of cerebration. Body and mind. Hallucinations and illusions. The understanding and the will. Concluding view of standard man. Type womanhood. Life in the beginnings. Infancy and idiocy. Childhood, youth, and adolescence. From infancy to age. Facts and fancies in pathology. Physical and psychical etiology. Varieties of madness. Pathology v. jurisprudence. Final observations.