FRANCIS CAMPS Famous Case Histories of the Celebrated Pathologist

Hardback. Francis Edwards Camps (1905-72). Professor of Forensic Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College in Whitechapel, was a unique mixture of the eccentric and the brilliant. As pathologist in the mortuary, lecturer and criminologist, the intuitive flair and professional knowledge which he brought to a staggering total of over 88 thousand post-mortems, established him among the students and colleagues as the outstanding expert on forensic medicine of the time. On the witness stand (where his desire to see that defendants had a fair trial would make him go to almost any lengths to help those whom he thought had not), he became a household figure in such celebrated and macabre cases as the Rillington Place Murders by the notorious Christie; the Hume murder (the Torso in the Essex Marshes) and the trial of Dr. John Bodkin Adams plus a chapter entitled : Camps on Jack the Ripper. In this book the author describes Camps' involvement in these and many other cases where his evidence was vital in directing the decisions of judge and jury. Illus. 208pp. 8vo. h/back. V. lightly browned edges o/w Nr. F. in Vg. dw. which has a tiny closed tear to top edge of fr. cover and sl. sunned sp.