TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.

—Multiple and antiquate spelling of specialistic words, expecially in French and German, have beed manteined out of consistency and due to the impossibility of determining what the spelling whas at the time this work was composed

—The transcriber of this project created the book cover image using the front cover of the original book. The image is placed in the public domain.


MEDICAL
JURISPRUDENCE

FORENSIC MEDICINE

AND

TOXICOLOGY

BY

R. A. WITTHAUS, A.M., M.D.

Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Hygiene in the University of the City of New York, etc., etc.

AND

TRACY C. BECKER, A.B., LL.B.

Counsellor at Law,
Professor of Criminal Law and Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Buffalo

WITH THE COLLABORATION OF

J. Clifton Edgar, M.D.; D. S. Lamb, M.D.; W. B. Outten, M.D.;
Hon. Wm. A. Poste; Edward S. Wood, M.D.;
E. V. Stoddard, M.D.;
Hon. Goodwin Brown; J. C. Cameron, M.D.; E. D. Fisher, M.D.;
H. P. Loomis, M.D.; Roswell Park, M.D.; Irving C. Rosse, M.D.;
F. P. Vandenbergh, M.D.; J. H. Woodward, M.D.;
George Woolsey, M.D.

VOLUME ONE

NEW YORK

WILLIAM WOOD & COMPANY

1894

Copyright, 1894,
By WILLIAM WOOD & COMPANY

PRESS OF
THE PUBLISHERS’ PRINTING COMPANY
132-136 W. FOURTEENTH ST.
NEW YORK