Text-book of forensic medicine and toxicology

by R. J. M. Buchanan

INDEX

• Abdomen, P.-M. exam., [58], [59];
• enlargement of, [153];
• in delivery, [156];
• in pregnancy, [153];
• in starvation, [132];
• injuries of, [75]
• Abel, Prof., on arsenic, [284]
• Abercrombie, Dr., on apoplexy, [73]
• Abortion, criminal, [64], [76], [159 et seq.];
• causes of, [160], [161];
• dangers of, [161];
• definition of, [160], [164];
• examination in, [162], [163];
• in poisoning, [313], [317], [319], [322];
• law of, [159];
• R. v. Goodhall, [159]
• Abscess, in wounds, [84]
• Accident, death from, [2]
• Acetanilide (antifebrin), [363]
• Acetic acid, [262]
• Acetone, in starvation, [132]
• Acetylene gas, [401]
• Acid poisons, [231], [234], [246]
• Aconite and aconitine, [229], [234], [239], [348], [375], [376]
• Action (general) of poisons, [232-34]
• Acts of Parliament:—
• Arsenic Act, 1851 (14 Vict. c. 13), [230], [275];
• Coroners Acts, De Officio Coronatoris
• (4 Edw. I, c. 2, 1275), [3], [4];
• 50 & 51 Vict., 1887, [3];
• Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, [12];
• Fœticide (24 & 25 Vict. c. [100], sec. 58 and 59), [159];
• Habitual Drunkard‘s Act, [226];
• Indictable Offences Act, 1848 (sec. 17), [18];
• Infanticide (21 Jac. I. c. 27), [165];
• (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, sec. 60), [166];
• Lunacy Acts (8 & 9 Vict. c. 100, secs. 90 and 114), [195];
• (16 & 17 Vict. c. 70), [224];
• (16 & 17 Vict. c. 96, sec. 4), [207];
• (25 & 26 Vict. c. 86), [224];
• (53 Vict. c. 5, 1890), [210-219];
• (53 Vict. c. 53), [207], [223];
• (54 & 55 Vict. c. 65, 1891), [207], [223];
• Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, [198];
• Notification of Births Act, 1907, [12];
• Notification of Infectious Diseases, 1889, [12];
• Pharmacy Act, 1868, [228];
• Poisons Act (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, secs. [11], [22-25], [228];
• Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, [229];
• Additions to Schedule Order, 1913, [229];
• Rape (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, sec. 48), [140];
• (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69, 1885), [140], [141];
• Wounding (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, sec. 18), [69]
• Adam, Dr., on croton oil, [318]
• Addington, on poisoning, [240]
• Adipocere, [52]
• After-pains, in delivery, [156]
• Age, ossification as a sign of, [33], [34], [174];
• putrefaction, [50]
• Ague and arsenic, [274]
• Air and putrefaction, [50], [55]
• Albumen, as antidote, [300], [312];
• in urine, [41], [258], [268], [307], [382]
• Alcohol, [40], [62], [114], [119], [120], [135], [226], [231],
• [232], [244], [348], [354 et seq.];
• amylic, [362]
• Alexander, on poisoning, [233], [238]
• Alimentary canal, [61], [271], [291], [297], [306], [310], [322], [346]
• Alison, on infanticide, [166]
• Alkalies, in poisoning, [231], [234], [262 et seq.]
• Alkaloid poisons, [229];
• mydriatic, [349 et seq.];
• putrefactive, [323 et seq.];
• vegetable, [335 et seq.]
• Allen, Dr., on CO₂, [397]
• Almonds, bitter, [62], [229], [361], [373]
• Amenorrhœa, in sterility, [188]
• Ammonia, [264 et seq.]
• Amos, on inheritance, [184]
• Anæmia, [132], [299], [307], [401], [403]
• Analysis, chem., in P.-M. exam., [57], [62]
• Anasarca, [41]
• Aneurysm, in death from wounds, [81]
• Aniline oil, [108], [361], [362]
• Animal poisons, [231], [322 et seq.]
• Ante-mortem injuries, [79]
• Anthropometry, [24];
• Commission on, [133]
• Antibodies, in blood tests, [105]
• Antidotes, in poisoning, [243]
• Antifebrin, [363]
• Antigen, in blood tests, [105]
• Antimony, [229], [234], [264 et seq.], [280], [282], [292 et seq.]
• Antiserum, in blood tests, [105], [106]
• Apes, in blood testing, [105], [107]
• Aphasia, [73], [226]
• Apnœa, [118], [121], [126], [128]
• Apomorphine, [243], [257], [300], [345]
• Apoplexy, [40], [73], [118], [121], [126], [136], [236], [241], [347], [397]
• Arborescent marks, [137]
• Areola, of nipple, [152], [156]
• Arterio-sclerosis, [307]
• Arthritis, in lead poisoning, [307]
• Asphyxia, [38], [39], [110], [121 et seq.], [136], [139], [369],
• [375], [380], [397], [402]
• Assaults, [27], [68], [80];
• Law cases of, R. v. Rosinski, [68];
• R. v. Case, [68]
• Assize Courts, [5]
• Atelectasis pulmonum, [169]
• Atheroma, as cause of death, [73]
• Atrophy, acute yellow, of liver and phosphorus poisoning, [268]
• Atropine, [229], [244], [348], [349], [372]
• Auscultation, in pregnancy, [151]
• Aveling, Dr., on delivery, [157]
• Bacillus enteritidis, [329], [330];
• botulinus, [329], [330];
• typhosus, [328]
• Bacterial poisons, [323], [328 et seq.]
• Bail, [4]
• Bailie, Justice, on medical evidence, [19]
• Ballottement, in pregnancy, [154]
• Banti‘s disease, and X-rays, [114]
• Barristers, [5]
• Baryta and barium salts, [234], [244], [248], [313], [315]
• Battery, [68]
• Beatson, on burns, [114]
• Becker, on blood-stains, [92]
• Beer and arsenic, [290];
• and strychnine, [337]
• Belladonna, [229], [231 et seq.], [349-351]
• Bentley, on fungi, [359]
• Benzene and benzole, and alkaloids, [337], [338], [402]
• Bernard, on CO₂, [397]
• Bertillon‘s method, [24]
• Berzelius, on CO₂, [397]
• Beverley case, [193]
• Bigelow, on wounds, [74]
• Bile, in poisoning, [233]
• Bilroth, on carbolic acid, [256]
• Biological tests, for blood, [105];
• semen, [146]
• Birds, blood corpuscles, [96], [99]
• Birth—certificates, [12];
• marks, [23];
• precipitate, [177];
• premature, [186]
• Bismuth, [314]
• Blackening, in wounds, [78], [87]
• Blackstone, on infanticide, [167];
• on inheritance, [184]
• Bladder and putrefaction, [54];
• in new born, [169];
• in P.-M. exam., [62], [169]
• Blandy case, [240]
• Blisters, in burns, [112];
• in infanticide, [167]
• Blizzard (Sir W.), on evidence, [20]
• Blondlot, on phosphorus, [269]
• Blood, corpuscles, [97 et seq.];
• crystals, [96-102];
• cysts, [73];
• films, [94];
• in burning, [112];
• cold, [135], [136];
• drowning, [130];
• heat-stroke, [137];
• mammalian, [96], [105];
• menstrual, [96];
• P.-M., [62];
• poisoning, [232], [247], [256], [267], [271], [319],
• [327], [355], [360], [362], [399], [401];
• rape, [142], [143];
• suffocation, [199];
• stains, [79], [80], [89et seq.], [145];
• vessels, [54], [81], [232]
• Bloxam, on arsenic, [284];
• test, [393]
• Blue line, in lead poisoning, [307]
• Blyth, on poisons, [227];
• tests, [350], [396]
• Board of Trade and electricity, [138]
• Body viewing, [4]
• Bones, epiphyses, [33], [34];
• fractures, [56];
• ossification, [33], [34];
• poisoning, [238], [268], [271]
• Bonnewyn, on mercury poisoning, [304]
• Books, use of, in Court, [19]
• Borax, [91], [92]
• Bouchard, on leucomaines, [327]
• Bouchet, on signs of death, [33], [34]
• Boutmy, on alkaloids, [326]
• Bouvalat, on sudden death, [42]
• Bowels (see Intestine)
• Brain, [54], [58], [71 et seq.];
• in burns, [112];
• cold, [130];
• drowning, [130];
• electricity, [138];
• poisoning, [231], [233], [238], [256], [269], [291], [297], [345], [355],
• [356], [360], [364], [366], [375], [377], [378], [380], [384];
• suffocation, [119]
• Brande and Taylor‘s method, in arsenic, [280], [281]
• Bravo case, [294]
• Breasts, in pregnancy, [152]
• Briand and Chaudé, on wounds, [75]
• Brieger, on alkaloids, [326]
• Bright‘s disease, and poisoning, [235], [244]
• Brodie (Sir B.), on cold, [135]
• Bromatotoximus, [328 et seq.]
• Brouardel, on alkaloids, [326]
• Broughton (Sir T.), on poisoning, [374]
• Bruce, Justice, on dying declarations, [17]
• Brucine, [342], [388], [393], [396]
• Bruises, [115], [144]
• Brunton, Dr., on brucine, [394]
• Bryony, [322]
• Burgess, on opium, [345]
• Burnett‘s fluid, [165]
• Burns, [64], [110 et seq.]
• Cachexia, in poisoning, [299]
• Cacodylic acid, [290]
• Cadaveric rigidity (rigor mortis), [46 et seq.], [119];
• spasm, [48], [78], [80]
• Cadmium, [281]
• Calabar bean, [231], [233], [348], [386], [387]
• Calcium chloride, [260]
• Callus, provisional, [77]
• Calomel, [301]
• Camel, blood corpuscles, [96]
• Camphor, [349], [352]
• Canadian partridges and poisoning, [236]
• Cancer and arsenic, [274]
• Cancrum oris and mercury, [300]
• Cannabis Indica, [232]
• Cantharidis, [229], [231], [234], [322]
• Caput succedaneum, [180]
• Carbolic Acid, [229], [231], [234], [254 et seq.], [348]
• Carbon bisulphide, [112], [379];
• dioxide, [231], [232], [397];
• monoxide, [104], [112], [232], [398]
• Carunculæ myrtiformes, [148]
• Caspar, [21], [52], [70], [86], [113], [122], [123], [128], [130], [142],
• [149], [169], [170], [173], [177], [247], [319], [355]
• Castlehaven, Earl of, and rape, [140]
• Castor-oil, [321]
• Catalepsy, and rigor mortis, [48]
• Cat‘s bile, in blood testing, [98]
• Caustic salts, [231];
• soda, [231], [262];
• potash, [262]
• Cave, Justice, on dying declarations, [16], [17]
• Cell, Sorby‘s, [105]
• Central Criminal Court, [10]
• Cerebral concussion, [72], [356];
• compression, [72];
• poisons, [231], [377 et seq.]
• Certificates of birth, &c., [11 et seq.];
• exemption, [191];
• lunacy, [206 et seq.]
• Cervix uteri, [153]
• Cessation of circulation and respiration, [43]
• Chalk, in poisoning, [244], [247]
• Chancery Court, [224]
• Chancre, soft, [143]
• Chantrelle, on coal gas, [401]
• Charcoal, in poisoning by CO₂, [121]
• Charpentier, on abortion, [162]
• Chastity, offences against, [140 et seq.]
• Chemical exam., [98];
• poisons, [231], [246]
• Cherry-laurel, [374]
• Chest, in infanticide, [168];
• new born, [168];
• P.-M. exam., [59]
• Chevers, on suffocation, [122]
• Cheyne-Stokes breathing, [41], [136]
• Children, weight and height of, [134]
• Chlorine, [232], [372], [403]
• Chloroform, [230], [232], [239], [244], [337], [348], [378], [393]
• Cholera, simulating poisoning, [241]
• Chossat‘s experiments, [132]
• Christison (Sir R.), [12], [112], [116], [118], [238], [240], [258],
• [275], [278], [305], [343], [344], [386]
• Chromium, [316]
• Churchill, on suffocation, [186]
• Cicatrices of wounds, [21 et seq.]
• Cinnabar, [301]
• Circulation in poisoning, [255], [271], [291], [297], [309], [310]
• Cisterns, in lead poisoning, [305], [306]
• Citation of witnesses, [8 et seq.]
• Civil rights in lunacy, [224]
• Climate, in putrefaction, [50]
• Clothes, cuts in, [71], [80];
• in burning, [111];
• stains on, [89], [91]
• Coagulation of blood, [78], [89], [112]
• Coal gas poisoning, [232], [400];
• coal-tar, [254]
• Cobalt, in hydrocyanic acid, [373]
• Coca, [229], [230];
• cocaine, [357], [358]
• Cocculus Indicus, [232], [354], [358]
• Cockburn, Lord, on poisons, [228]
• Code Napoleon, [185]
• Coke, Lord, on murder, [69];
• on live birth, [167];
• on inheritance, [184]
• Colchicum, [231], [234], [318]
• Cold, death from, [135], [136];
• P.-M. appearances in, [135]
• Coleridge, Lord, on poisons, [228]
• Colic, in poisoning, [241], [242], [305], [306], [317]
• Collapse, in poisoning, [258], [268], [330], [333]
• Colostrum, in delivery, [156]
• Colour, in putrefaction, [51], [52]
• Coma, [39], [40], [135], [137];
• in poisoning, [268], [276], [290], [310], [327], [333], [343],
• [349], [351], [354], [360], [377], [382], [399]
• Combustion gases, [401];
• spontaneous, [113]
• Comminuted fractures, [74]
• Commissioners in lunacy, [208], [210], [213], [220], [221], [224]
• Committee of estate in lunacy, [220], [221], [224]
• Complications, in injuries, [81]
• Compression, cerebral, [40], [72]
• Concealment of birth and pregnancy, [166], [183]
• Concussion, cerebral, [72], [356]
• Confectionery and arsenic, [287], [290], [306]
• Congenital deformities, [23];
• disease, [178]
• Conium, [231], [234], [385], [386];
• conine, [385]
• Conolly, on mania, [200]
• Constitutional peculiarity, [51]
• Contre-coup in fracture of skull, [74]
• Contusions, [60], [61], [74], [84], [115]
• Convulsions, in poisoning, [268], [276], [293], [310], [327], [332], [343],
• [349], [351], [354], [360], [377], [382], [399]
• Cooling of body, [30], [45]
• Cooper (Sir A.), on gunshot wounds, [87]
• Copper, sulphate, [243], [280], [290], [300], [331], [332];
• subacetate, [310 et seq.]
• Cord, marks of, [123], [176];
• spinal, injuries of, [74]
• Cornier, Henrietta, case, [203]
• Coroners, [2];
• Act, [2-4];
• Court, [2 et seq.];
• jury, [3]
• Corpus luteum, in abortion, [164]
• Corpuscles (see Blood), [97 et seq.]
• Corrosive poisons, [110], [112], [231], [234], [244], [246], [275];
• sublimate, [229], [232], [341]
• Cotton fibres, [93]
• County Council, [2]
• Court of Criminal Appeal, [5];
• Probate, [10];
• Session, [10], [224]
• Cramps, in poisoning, [276], [293], [311], [401]
• Creosote, [254]
• Crepitation, in fracture, [71];
• in lung, [170], [172]
• Cretinism, [197]
• Criminal abortion (see Abortion);
• procedure, [2 et seq.]
• Cross-examination, [4], [5]
• Croton oil, [318]
• Crown Office instructions, [7], [56 et seq.]
• Crying, in infanticide, [167]
• Cryptorchids, [187]
• Crystals, antimony, [292], [293];
• arsenic, [282], [283];
• blood, [96];
• brucine, [395];
• hæmin, [101], [102];
• hæmoglobin, [96], [98];
• meconic acid, [340];
• mercury, [298];
• morphine, [339];
• seminal, [146];
• strychnine, [389], [392];
• Teichmann‘s, [101]
• Culpable homicide, [68]
• Cunningham, on electricity, [138], [139]
• Curator bonis, in lunacy, [225]
• “Cut the Bill”, [5]
• Cutis anserina, [128], [129], [355]
• Cyanide of mercury, [301];
• potassium, [229], [373]
• Cyanosis, [122], [361], [378], [401]
• Darling, Justice, on dying declarations, [17]
• Daturine, [349], [352]
• Day‘s test (blood), [100]
• Death, [43 et seq.];
• certificate of, [2];
• from bruises, [116];
• burns, [111];
• suffocation, [108];
• wounds, [80];
• fœtus, [174];
• sudden, [42]
• Deformities, [21], [24]
• Deeming case, [203]
• Degrees of burns, [110]
• Deliriant poisons, [231], [249 et seq.]
• Delirium, [136], [205], [235], [320], [321], [330],
• [344], [349], [355], [366], [375], [380]
• Delivery, [64], [65], [155 et seq.], [175]
• Delpach, on cicatrices, [23]
• Delusions in lunacy, [193], [196], [199], [200]
• Dementia in lunacy, [204], [205]
• Depositions, [18]
• De Quincey, on opium, [344]
• Deutsch, on blood, [105]
• Development of embryo, [35], [36]
• Devergie, on scars, [22];
• on hair-dyeing, [26];
• on putrefaction, [30], [128];
• on rape, [144]
• Diabetes, sudden death, [41];
• starvation, [132]
• Diachylon, in abortion, [161]
• Diagnosis of insensibility, [39]
• Diaphragm in new born, [168];
• in putrefaction, [54]
• Diarrhœa, [277], [300], [325], [330], [333], [367], [374], [378]
• Dichroism of blood, [100]
• Diday, on chancre, [143]
• Diethylarzine, [288]
• Diethyl-barbituric acid, [230]
• Digitalis, [230], [232], [364 et seq.];
• Digitaline, [365]
• Dinitrobenzene, [361]
• Discharge of lunatics, [221]
• Dissection, P.-M., [58];
• instruments, [56]
• Dobie, on antimony, [293]
• Docimasia pulmonum hydrostatica, [170];
• pulmonaris, [173];
• circulationis, [182]
• Doe, Justice, on insanity, [195]
• Donné, M., on rape, [144]
• Donovan‘s solution, [287]
• Dowzard‘s apparatus, [270], [285]
• Dragendorff‘s method (alkaloids), [337]
• Dropsy, [155], [355]
• Drop-wrist, [307]
• Drowning, [63], [127 et seq.], [171], [176]
• Drunkenness, [72], [114], [135], [226], [235]
• Duboisine, [349]
• Ductus arteriosus and venosus, [182]
• Duncan, Mathews, on pregnancy, [153];
• on superfœtation, [186]
• Dupuytren, M., on cicatrices, [23];
• on fractures, [77], [87];
• on burns, [111]
• Durrant, Dr., on veronal, [384]
• Dussant‘s method, [269]
• Duties of medical men, [79]
• Dyed fabrics, [91]
• Dyeing, of hair, [26];
• and arsenic, [274]
• Dyer, Dr., on suffocation, [122];
• mixture, [265]
• Dyes, in blood-stains, [108]
• Dying, declarations, [11], [16 et seq.];
• Law cases: Fagent, [17];
• Forester, [17];
• Holloway, [18];
• Mitchell, [17];
• Smith, [17];
• Whitmarsh, [17];
• modes of, [38 et seq.]
• Dysentery, in poisoning, [235]
• Dysmenorrhœa, [188]
• Dyspnœa, [327], [375], [382], [403]
• Earth, poisoning, [279];
• putrefaction, [55]
• Ecchymosis, [44], [63], [71], [115], [119], [122], [125], [137], [171], [176]
• Ectopion, vesicæ, [188]
• Elaterium, [231], [322]
• Eldon, Lord, on insanity, [192]
• Electricity, [110], [136 et seq.]
• Elimination of poisons, [295], [327], [355]
• Elsässer, on inflation, [172], [176]
• Elwell, on wounds, [70]
• Embryo, [35], [36]
• Emetic tartar, [229], [243]
• Emetics, in poisoning, [243], [257], [270], [286],
• [289-300], [345], [365], [367]
• Emmenagogues, [163]
• Emphysema neonatorum, [171], [172]
• Enamel, as poison, [266]
• Enteritis, [241], [293]
• Enzemes, in poisoning, [329]
• Epilepsy, [41], [242], [327], [394]
• Epiphyses, [33];
• table of, [34], [37]
• Epispadias, [188]
• Ergot, [229], [232], [319], [328]
• Erichson, on fracture, [77]
• Erlenmeyer‘s flask, [283]
• Erotomania, [203]
• Eruption of teeth, [33]
• Erysipelas, [70]
• Erythema, frost, [135]
• Eserine, [387]
• Esquirol, M., on insanity, [196], [197], [201], [203], [204]
• Ether, [232], [377], [402]
• Eversion of wounds, [86]
• Evidence, in Court, [4 et seq.];
• of poisoning, [235 et seq.]
• Examination, in abortion, [162], [163];
• Court, [4 et seq.];
• insanity, [225];
• malingering, [190];
• rape, [143], [148];
• blood-stains, [89 et seq.];
• P.-M., [56 et seq.];
• stomach contents, [244]
• Excitomotory poisons, [388 et seq.]
• Exemption certificates, [191]
• Exhumation, [3], [4], [56], [66];
• period of, [66]
• Expenses, Court, [8]
• Exposure, in infanticide, [178]
• Extraction of alkaloids, [325], [335 et seq.]
• Eyes, in drowning, [128];
• hanging, [122];
• identity, [25];
• poisoning, [276], [291], [325], [343], [346], [348], [377], [385], [390];
• starvation, [132]
• Face, in drowning, [127];
• P.-M. exam., [63];
• suffocation, [119];
• in poisoning, [276];
• wounds of, [74]
• Facts, in lunacy certificates, [209], [210]
• Falls, in fœticide, [177]
• Farnum, Dr., on rape, [146]
• Fat, in poisoning, [238]
• Fauvre, M., on asphyxia, [130]
• Feeble-mindedness, [198], [225]
• Fees, medical, [8-10]
• Feet, in drowning, [129]
• Feigned diseases, [190]
• Ferric chloride test (Hcy. acid), [371]
• Ferrier, Dr., on carbolic acid, [256]
• Ferrocyanide of potassium, [312], [313]
• Finger prints, [24], [25];
• marks, [125];
• nails, [124]
• Finny, Dr., on opium, [345]
• Firearm wounds, [78]
• Fishes, blood corpuscles, [96], [99], [100]
• Flaccidity, [49]
• Flannagan case, [278], [279]
• Flattening of muscles, in death, [45]
• Flaudin, M., on arsenic, [274]
• Flax fibres, [91]
• Fleitmann‘s test (arsenic), [286]
• Florence‘s reaction (semen), [146]
• Fluorescin test (death), [44]
• Fœticide, [159 et seq.];
• fœtal heart, [15], [154]
• Fœtus, [161], [166], [174], [185];
• size of, [37]
• Fontanelles, [33]
• Food poisoning, [62], [290], [306], [328 et seq.]
• Fool‘s parsley, [321]
• Foot-prints, [25], [26], [79]
• Foramen ovale, [182]
• Foreign bodies in trachea, [42], [61], [175]
• Forms of subpœna, [8], [9]
• Fowler‘s solution of arsenic, [286]
• Fractures, [74], [76], [77], [120], [129], [176]
• France, and CO₂ suicide, [121]
• Fraser, on cacodylates, [290]
• Friction, in burning, [110]
• Friedenthal, on blood tests, [105]
• Frohde‘s reagent (morphine), [341]
• Fruit-stains, [108]
• Fungi poisoning, [359]
• Fusel-oil, [362]
• Galabin, on superfœtation, [187]
• Gallard, on abortion, [162]
• Galvanic test (strych.), [392]
• Gamboge, [231], [320]
• Gamgee, on blood tests, [98]
• Gangrene in poisoning, [301], [320]
• Ganttner‘s test (blood), [92]
• Gases, irrespirable, [232], [397]
• Gastric inflammation, [241], [268], [277], [352], [374], [401];
• ulcers, [274]
• Gay-Lussac, on hydrocyanic acid, [368]
• General paralysis, [204]
• Genital organs, [76], [130], [156]
• Geoghehan, on poisons, [238]
• Georget, M., on insanity, [195], [201]
• Gerrard‘s test (belladonna), [350]
• Gestation, [76]
• Glaister, Prof., on blood-stains, [96], [97], [100]
• Glass as vulnerant poison, [231], [265]
• Gloucester, Countess of, [186]
• Goadly, on lead poisoning, [309]
• Goeldner‘s test (cocaine), [357]
• Gonorrhœa, in rape, [142]
• Goulard‘s extract, [305]
• Grand Jury, [5]
• Gross, Prof., on lung inflation, [172]
• Grünbaum, on blood tests, [105], [107]
• Guaiacum test (blood), [100]
• Gull (Sir W.), on combustibility, [114]
• Gullet, [59], [247], [263], [278], [294], [301], [330]
• Gums, in lead poisoning, [307];
• copper, [311]
• Gunshot wounds, [80], [85]
• Guttman, on caustic soda, [263]
• Gutzeit‘s test, [270], [285]
• Guy, on poisons, [231]
• Habit, in poisoning, [235]
• Habitual drunkards, [226]
• Hæmatin, [90], [103], [104], [360]
• Hæmatoporphyrin, [382]
• Hæmin, crystals, [101], [102], [256];
• test, [92]
• Hæmoglobin, [91], [96], [98], [102], [103], [135], [315], [399], [403]
• Hæmorrhage, [38], [42], [73], [75], [80-84], [139], [143], [178], [268],
• [307], [320], [327], [330-332], [343], [353], [402]
• Hair, dyeing of, [26]
• Hale, on rape, [140]
• Hallucinations, [199], [200]
• Hamilton, on carbolic acid, [255]
• Hands, in drowning, [129]
• Hanging, [63], [117], [121 et seq.];
• accidental, [123];
• homicidal, [123];
• judicial, [126];
• suicidal, [123], [124]
• Haslam, on evidence, [20]
• Hawkins, on secrecy, [20];
• poisons, [228]
• Head, in new born, [180];
• injuries of, [40], [72 et seq.];
• P.-M. exam. of, [58]
• Heart, disease, [42], [81];
• drowning, [129], [130];
• electricity, [139];
• fœtal, [151], [154];
• infanticide, [167];
• poisoning, [231], [232], [256], [258], [263], [291], [325], [327], [355],
• [364], [366], [368], [377], [380], [382], [386], [397], [402];
• P.-M. Exam., [60];
• putrefaction, [54]
• Heat, death by, [136];
• exhaustion, [136], [137];
• prostration, [137];
• stroke, [136]
• Hegar‘s sign, in pregnancy, [153]
• Hellebore, [320]
• Hemiplegia, [73]
• Hemlock, [385]
• Hernia, [75], [242]
• Hewett, on head injury, [73]
• Higgins‘ case, [278]
• High Court of Justiciary, [6]
• Hildebrandt, on leucomaines, [327]
• Hippocrates, on pregnancy, [152]
• Hoppé, Seyler, on carbolic acid, [256]
• Hume, on rape, [140]
• Husband, [73], [157], [175], [227]
• Husman, on antimony, [293]
• Hutchinson, on suffocation, [122]
• Hutin, on tattoo marks, [23]
• Hydrochloric acid, [252 et seq.]
• Hydrocyanic acid, [229], [231], [232], [239], [261], [367 et seq.];
• Hydrogen peroxide, [90], [92], [101], [372];
• sulphide, [233]
• Hymen, [28], [142], [143], [148], [155], [188]
• Hyoscyamus, [231], [348], [351];
• hyoscyamine, [349];
• hyoscine, [349]
• Hysteria and tetanus, [394]
• Icard‘s (fluorescin) test, [44]
• Identity of the dead, [28], [66];
• of the living, [21] et seq.;
• Law case: Parkman, [28]
• Idiocy and imbecility, [141], [142], [195], [197], [224]
• Immaturity, in fœtus, [175]
• Impotence, [187], [188]
• Incised wounds, [83]
• India, and drowning, [128]
• Indictable Offences Act, [18]
• Indigo, in arsenic, [275], [315];
• sulphate, [254]
• Infanticide, [64], [133], [165 et seq.];
• Infanticide, Law cases in: Colmer, [165];
• Enoch, [166];
• Hewitt, [165];
• Poulton, [166];
• Reeves, [166];
• Senior, [167];
• Turner, [166];
• Inflammation, [72], [110], [164];
• in poisoning, [234], [237], [278], [300], [360]
• Inflation of lung, [121], [172];
• and P.-M. staining, [45]
• Inheritance, [184], [185]
• Inorganic poisons, [231]
• Insanity, [129 et seq.];
• circular, [204];
• classification, [197];
• continuous, [196];
• definition of, [192], [193];
• delirium in, [205];
• delusions in, [193], [196], [199], [200];
• hallucinations, [200];
• drunkenness in, [205];
• moral, [194];
• procedure in, [206-222]
• Insanity, Law cases in: Arnold, [193], [194];
• Beverley, [193];
• Ferrers, [194];
• Hill, [224];
• Nottidge v. Ripley, [222];
• Offord, [194];
• Shaw, [195];
• Treadway, [195];
• Wilkins, [223]
• Inspection, medical, [7], [56]
• Instantaneous rigor, [48]
• Instructions (P.-M.) of Crown Office, [7], [56 et seq.];
• Intestines, [54], [61], [176], [181], [232], [259], [275], [279], [291], [294], [297],
• [300], [306], [311], [325], [327], [330], [333], [360], [369], [375]
• Intoxication, [72], [114], [135], [226], [235]
• Intussusception, [241]
• Iodide of potassium, [272 et seq.], [393]
• Iodine, [231], [271], [335], [371];
• test for hydrocyanic acid, [371]
• Ipecacuanha, [243]
• Iron in arsenic poisoning, [289], [313];
• in testing hydrocyanic acid, [371];
• in morphine, [341];
• muriate, [313];
• sulphate, [313];
• stains, [96], [108]
• Irrespirable gases, [121], [397]
• Irritant poisons, [231], [234], [240], [267], [317]
• Jacquemier‘s test (pregnancy), [154]
• Jalap, [321]
• Jaundice, [268], [311], [315], [319], [355], [378], [401]
• Jörg, M., on infanticide, [169]
• Judicial authority, [207], [215], [220];
• factor, [224]
• Jury, coroner‘s, [3]
• Justiciary Court, [6]
• Justifiable homicide, [69]
• Keiller, on suffocation, [120]
• Kellen, on trichiniasis, [333]
• Kidney, in new born, [169];
• poisoning, [233], [238], [256], [269], [278], [291], [297], [300],
• [319], [322], [327], [355], [378], [382], [383];
• P.-M. exam., [62];
• putrefaction, [54];
• rupture of, [45], [75], [116];
• in suffocation, [119]
• Kiesteine, on pregnancy, [154]
• Kingston, Duchess of, case, [20]
• Kleptomania, [202]
• Kopf, on phosphorus, [267]
• Körber, on fractures, [74]
• Kratter, on electricity, [139]
• Kundrat‘s test (aconite), [376]
• Labour and fœtal death, [176]
• Laburnum, [321]
• Lacerated wounds, [84]
• Lamson case, [239], [375]
• Landolt, on carbolic acid, [256]
• Larcher, on signs of death, [44]
• Larynx, in hanging, [120], [122];
• poisoning, [262];
• P.-M. exam., [59], [63];
• strangling, [124];
• throttling, [125]
• Law cases in—abortion (crim.), Goodhall, [159]:
• assault, Case, [68];
• Rosinski, [68]:
• dying declarations, Fagent, [17];
• Forester, [17];
• Holloway, [18];
• Mitchell, [17];
• Smith, [17];
• Whitmarsh, [17]:
• identity, Parkman, [28]:
• infanticide, Colmer, [165];
• Enoch, [166];
• Hewitt, [165];
• Poulton, [166];
• Reeves, [166];
• Senior, [167];
• Turner, [166]:
• insanity, Arnold, [193];
• Beverley, [193];
• Ferrers, [194];
• Hill, [224];
• MacNaughton, [193];
• Nottidge v. Ripley, [122];
• Offord, [194];
• Shaw, [195];
• Treadaway, [195];
• Wilkins, [223]:
• malpraxis, Butchell, [190];
• Williamson, [190]:
• medical evidence, Patmore, [19]:
• murder, Cornier, [203];
• Deeming, [203]:
• poisoning, Blandy, [240];
• Cramp, [228];
• Flannigan, [278];
• Garner, [240];
• Geering, [240];
• Helson, [240];
• Higgins, [278];
• Lamson, [239];
• M‘Cracken, [278];
• Marsh, [294];
• Maybrick, [277];
• Newton, [278];
• Palmer, [238], [390], [392];
• Port, [274];
• Pritchard, [19];
• Spink, [294];
• Wooler, [240];
• pregnancy, Gloucester, [186];
• professional secrecy, Kingston, [20];
• rape, Barrett, [141];
• Castlehaven, [140];
• Cockcroft, [140];
• Fletcher, [141];
• Groombridge, [142];
• Hattery, [141];
• Hodgson, [140];
• Holmes, [140];
• Mayers, [141];
• Pressy, [141];
• Russen, [140];
• somnambulism, Milligan, [206];
• survivorship, Underwood v. Wing, [189];
• will case, Tichborne, [23];
• wounds, Briggs, [69];
• M‘Laughlin, [69];
• Warman, [69]
• Lead, [260], [304], [305 et seq.]
• Leather, and blood stains, [93]
• Leblond, M., on abortion, [162]
• Legal criminal procedure, [2et seq.]
• Legitimacy, [185]
• Leishman‘s stain, [95], [146]
• Lemons, oil of, [260]
• Letheby, on poisons, [229]
• Leucomaines, [323], [326], [327]
• Levinstein, on chloral, [380]
• Levy, M., on copper, [311]
• Liability of medical men, [12], [20], [148], [222]
• Liebig‘s test (hydrocyanic acid), [371]
• Liebreich, on neurine, [324]
• Ligature, in infanticide, [65]
• Lightning, death by, [110], [137], [138]
• Lime, in putrefaction, [55]
• Lineæ albicantes, [31]
• Linen, in rape, [144]
• Littlejohn, on use of books, [19]
• Live birth, in infanticide, [166 et seq.]
• Liver, in poisoning, [238], [256], [268-271], [278], [280], [291], [297],
• [310], [319], [327], [355], [365], [378], [383];
• P.-M. exam, of, [62];
• putrefaction, [54];
• rupture of, [116]
• Livingstone, Dr. David, [28], [66]
• Lochia, in pregnancy, [156]
• Locomotor ataxia, [76]
• Lolium temulentum, [359]
• Lord-Advocate, [6]
• Lucid intervals, in insanity, [196]
• Luff, on poisoning, [229], [231]
• Lunacy, [291 et seq.];
• Acts, [206], [207], [223];
• certificates, [206 et seq.]
• Lungs in drowning, [130];
• new born, [169], [174];
• poisoning, [23], [233], [238], [256], [327], [345], [355], [365], [377], [378];
• P.-M. exam, of, [63], [65];
• putrefaction, [54]
• Lush, on rape, [141]
• Lustre of eye, in death, [43]
• MacCormac, on gunshot wounds, [87]
• Macdonald, criminal law, [18], [194]
• Mackenzie, Dr. C., on saponification, [53]
• Maclagan, Prof., on poisons, [231]
• MacNaughton case, [193]
• M‘Weeney, on blood tests, [107]
• Magnesium method (lead), [309]
• Magnus test (death), [43]
• Malignant disease, [132]
• Malpraxis, [82], [189];
• law cases of, R. v. Van Butchell, [190];
• R. v. Williamson, [190]
• Malum regimen, [82]
• Mammæ, in pregnancy, [152]
• Mammalian blood, [96], [105]
• Mania, [200 et seq.], [235];
• in poisoning, [379], [380], [402]
• Mann, Dixon, on combustibility, [114];
• on lead poisoning, [308], [309];
• on meat poisoning, [330]
• Mansfield, on prof. secrecy, [20]
• Manslaughter, [69]
• Marks of the cord, [123], [176]
• Marsh‘s test, [269], [280-84], [289], [296]
• Martin, on poisoning, [240]
• Matrons, jury of, [151]
• Maturity, of infant, [66], [174]
• Maudsley, on insanity, [193], [194], [195]
• Mauser bullet, [87]
• Maybrick case, [277]
• Mayer‘s reagent (alkaloids), [335]
• Measurement of fœtus, [36]
• Meat poisoning, [328]
• Meconic acid, [339-43]
• Meconium, [64], [179]
• Medical certificates, [11], [208et seq.];
• evidence, [11 et seq.];
• liabilities, [12], [20], [148], [222];
• report, [12]
• Medicines, in abortion, [171]
• Melancholia, [203], [204], [380]
• Meningitis, [110]
• Menopause, [189]
• Menorrhagia, [188]
• Menstruation, [152], [161], [189];
• blood in, [96]
• Mental unsoundness, [192 et seq.]
• Mercury, [230], [231], [235], [298 et seq.];
• salts of, [302 et seq.]
• Mesentery, in putrefaction, [54]
• Metal, stains on, [92]
• Metallic poisons, [231], [245], [331]
• Metalloid poisons, [231], [267]
• Metchnikoff, on blood stains, [105], [106]
• Methæmoglobin, [102], [103]
• Metzer‘s test (cocaine), [358]
• Meyer, on pregnancy, [150], [154]
• Micro-organisms, [50]
• Microscope, [90], [94], [95], [145]
• Milk, human, [106], [177];
• poisoning, [233], [333]
• Millar, Dr., on lunacy, [208], [209]
• Milne, Dr., on pregnancy, [187]
• Mineral acids, [246];
• poisons, [231]
• Minute of P.-M. exam., [14]
• Miscarriage, [160]
• Mitscherlich‘s process (phosph.), [269]
• Modes of dying, [38 et seq.]
• Modifying causes of poisoning, [234]
• Moisture, in putrefaction, [50]
• Molecular death, [43]
• Moles, in abortion, [162]
• Moncrieff, on insanity, [195]
• Monomania, [194], [201], [203]
• Monorchids, [187]
• Monsters, [184]
• Moral depravity, [194];
• evidence, [239], [240];
• mania, [194], [198], [201], [202]
• Morgan, Dr., on pulse tracings, [126]
• Morning sickness, in pregnancy, [152]
• Morphine, [244], [337], [339], [341-43]
• Mortal wounds, [70]
• Mosso, on leucomaines, [327]
• Mouth, in poisoning, [247], [259], [263], [278], [291], [293], [297],
• [299], [307], [311], [322], [330], [369], [375];
• starvation, [132];
• suffocation, [119]
• Mucous membrane, in poisoning, [233]
• Mummification, [53];
• of cord, [182]
• Murder, [68], [69];
• law cases: Cornier, [203];
• Deeming, [203]
• Murrell, on cacodylates, [290]
• Muscles, in poisoning, [238], [310], [327], [390], [399]
• Muscular spasm, [47]
• Mushrooms, table of, [359]
• Mydaleine, [325]
• Mydriatic alkaloids, [349]
• Mytilotoxine, [332]
• Nævi materni, [21], [28]
• Naphtha, [402]
• Napoleon Code, [185]
• Narcotic poisons, [40], [72], [231], [242], [276], [343 et seq.];
• Nausea, in poisoning, [277], [293], [299], [330-33], [349],
• [360], [364], [374], [399]
• Navel, in infanticide, [64]
• Necrosis of jaw, [268]
• Needles, as vulnerant, [231], [265]
• Neglect of duty, [189]
• Neill, on gunshot wounds, [86]
• Nelaton, on chloroform, [378]
• Nervous system, in poisoning, [255], [263], [271], [276], [277], [286], [288],
• [297], [307], [310], [326], [349], [351], [376],
• [377-386], [399], [402]
• Nessler‘s reagent (ammonia), [264]
• Neural poisons, [231], [385 et seq.]
• Neurine, [324]
• Neuritis, optic, [307];
• peripheral, [277], [402]
• Nicotine, [365]
• Nipples, in pregnancy, [156]
• Nitric acid, [250 et seq.]
• Nitrobenzene, [360], [361]
• Nitrogen monoxide, [402]
• Nitro-glycerine, [363]
• Normal saline solution, [90], [94], [106]
• Nose, in arsenic, [391]
• Notes, use of, [19]
• Notification of births, &c., [12]
• Nottidge v. Ripley (lunacy), [222]
• “Noxious thing”, [228]
• Numbness, in poisoning, [375], [401]
• Nunneley, on hydrocyanic acid, [370]
• Nuttall, on blood tests, [105]
• Nux vomica, [229], [388]
• Nymphomania, [203]
• Occupation marks, [29], [30]
• Œnanthe crocata, [352]
• Ogston, Prof., [72], [101], [114], [128], [130], [135]
• Oil of bitter almonds, [62], [373], [374];
• lemons, [260]
• Omentum, in putrefaction, [54]
• Omission, in infanticide, [178]
• “On soul and conscience”, [7], [11]
• Opinion, reasoned, [13], [14];
• written, [12]
• Opisthotonus in poisoning, [369], [390], [394]
• Opium, [41], [62], [229], [231], [235], [343 et seq.], [356]
• Oral evidence, [18]
• Order, coroner‘s, [4];
• lunacy, [207], [210-13], [215-20]
• Orfila, on vesication, [112];
• on mercury, [301];
• opium, [344]
• Organic poisons, [231]
• Organs, order of putrefaction, [52 et seq.]
• Orpiment, [288]
• Ossification, [34], [64], [65], [174], [177]
• Otto‘s method (alkaloids), [337], [338]
• Oxalic acid, [229], [257 et seq.]
• Oxygen, in poisoning, [398], [400], [402]
• Oxyhæmoglobin, [103]
• Pacini‘s solution (blood stains), [90]
• Paint stains, [108]
• Painter‘s colic, [305]
• Palmer case, [238], [390], [392]
• Pancreas, in putrefaction, [54]
• Paralysis, [72], [137], [138], [202], [204], [276], [306], [310],
• [330-33], [344], [351], [355], [378], [380], [382], [387]
• Parkman case, [28]
• Parol evidence, [18]
• Paterson, on ammonia, [264];
• arsenic, [278]
• Patmore case, [19]
• Pauper lunatics, [220-22]
• Pavy, on mercury, [301]
• Penalties, [36], [11]
• Pencillium brevicaule, [288]
• Penetration, in rape, [140]
• Penis, absence of, [187];
• erection of, [122], [128];
• P.-M. exam. of, [63];
• retraction of, [128], [130]
• Penny, on arsenic, [275]
• Perforation, in poisoning, [237], [242], [259], [278], [300], [333]
• Peritonitis, [110], [242]
• Peroxide of hydrogen, [92], [93], [101]
• Petition, in lunacy, [207], [210-13]
• Petty jury, [5]
• Peyer‘s patches, [327], [330], [331]
• Pharmacy Act, [228]
• Phenacetin, [363]
• Phenazonum, [363]
• Phenol, phenic acid, [254]
• Phlyctænæ, in putrefaction, [113]
• Phosphomobylic acid, [335]
• Phosphoretted hydrogen, [403]
• Phosphorus, [231], [239], [243], [267 et seq.];
• Phosphotungstic acid, [335]
• Physiological test (strych.), [392]
• Physostigmine, [244]
• Picrotoxin, [229], [234], [358]
• Pinel, on mania, [201]
• Placenta, in infanticide, [178];
• souffle, [151], [154]
• Plaster, stains on, [92]
• Plouquet‘s test (lung), [174]
• Pneumonia, in poisoning, [299]
• Poisoning—law cases: Blandy, [240];
• Cramp, [228];
• Flannigan, [278];
• Garner, [240];
• Geering, [240];
• Helson, [240];
• Higgins, [278];
• Lamson, [239];
• M‘Cracken, [278];
• Marsh, [294];
• Maybrick, [277];
• Newton, [278];
• Palmer, [238], [390], [392];
• Port, [274];
• Pritchard, [19];
• Spink, [294];
• Smith, [275];
• Wooler, [240]
• Poisons and poisoning, [51], [61], [62], [176], [227 et seq.];
• Acts, [228], [229];
• action, [232], [234];
• administration, [228];
• chemical analysis, [237];
• classification, [230 et seq.];
• definition, [227];
• diagnosis, [235];
• evidence, [235 et seq.];
• experiments, [239];
• modifying causes, [234];
• P.-M. appearance, [236];
• sale of, [228];
• schedules, [229], [230];
• symptoms, [235]
• Polypus, in abortion, [163]
• Poppies, [230]
• Possessio fratris and patris, [184]
• Post-mortem examination, [3], [4], [7], [10], [45], [56 et seq.];
• Potash, caustic, [262], [263]
• Potassium salts, [314], [315], [325], [393]
• Precipitate, red and white, [230]
• Precipitins, in blood tests, [105]
• Precognitions, [6]
• Pregnancy, [67], [76], [150 et seq.];
• Diagnosis of, [155];
• duration of, [185];
• in poisoning, [229 et seq.];
• in rape, [147];
• signs of, [151-54]
• Premature birth, [186]
• Preyer, on blood crystals, [96]
• Primary flaccidity, [45], [49]
• Pritchard case, [19]
• Pritchard, on insanity, [195], [201], [203], [205]
• Private patient, in lunacy, [210-13], [215-17], [220]
• Procurator-fiscal, [6]
• Professional privilege and secrecy, [20], [21]
• Prosecution, [4]
• Prosecutor, public, [4], [6]
• Prussian blue test (hydrocyanic), [371]
• Prussic acid, [62], [122], [239]. (See Hydrocyanic Acid.)
• Ptomaines, [231], [232], [323-26], [365], [385]
• Ptomatropine, [332]
• Puberty, [188]
• Pugilistic attitude, in burning, [111]
• Pulse tracings (in hanging), [126]
• Punctured wounds, [74]
• Pupils, in brain injury, [72];
• poisoning, [233], [234], [330], [343], [348-52], [364-68],
• [377], [378], [380], [384], [386], [399], [402]
• Purging, in poisoning, [242], [258], [263], [268], [276], [311], [313], [320],
• [330-33], [344], [355], [360], [364], [366], [367]
• Pus, [71], [93], [106], [113], [143]
• Putrefaction, [49 et seq.];
• in drowning, [128], [131];
• infanticide, [167], [171], [172];
• in poisoning, [269], [278], [294], [323], [330-33]
• Pyrites and arsenic, [290]
• Quarter Sessions, [5]
• Quickening, [151], [153], [186]
• Rabbit, in blood tests, [105], [106]
• Rachford, on leucomaines, [327]
• Rape, [140 et seq.];
• age at, [142];
• definition of, [140];
• in England and Ireland, [141];
• examination for, [142];
• in Scotland, [141];
• signs of, [143], [148]
• Rape, law cases in: Barrett, [141];
• Cockcroft, [140];
• Fletcher, [141];
• Groombridge, [142];
• Hattery, [141];
• Hodgson, [140];
• Holmes, [140];
• Mayers, [141];
• Pressy, [141];
• Russen, [140]
• Ray, on insanity, [195], [197], [202], [203]
• Realgar (red arsenic), [289]
• Reception order. (See Order.)
• Register of death, [2]
• Regulations of Crown Office, [7], [56]
• Reinche‘s test, [280], [283], [284], [296], [303], [304]
• Relaxation (flaccidity), [45], [49]
• Reptile blood, [96]
• Respiration, in infanticide, [167 et seq.];
• poisoning, [246]
• Rete mucosum, [23]
• Reynolds, on combustibility, [114]
• Richter, Max, on rape, [146]
• Rigidity, heat, [111]
• Rigor mortis, [46 et seq.], [136-38], [390]
• Ritter, on arsenic, [290]
• Rodger and Girdwood‘s method, [338]
• Roman law, on legitimacy, [186]
• Roussin‘s solution (blood stains), [91]
• Roux, M., on gunshot wounds, [86]
• Rupture of organs, [242]
• Salicylic acid, [353]
• Saliva and salivation, [93];
• in poisoning, [233], [235], [272], [276], [298], [299],
• [301], [304], [317], [322], [364];
• in pregnancy, [152]
• Santa, Dr., on arsenic, [277]
• Saponification, [52], [53]
• Savin, [229], [231], [317]
• Scalds, [110 et seq.]
• Scammony, [321]
• Scars, in identity, [21]
• Scheele‘s acid, [368];
• green, [287], [288]
• Scherbler‘s reagent (alkaloids), [335]
• Scherer‘s test (phos.), [270]
• Schönbern‘s test (blood), [100]
• Schweinfurt‘s green, [287]
• Scopolamine, [349]
• Scorching, of wounds, [78], [87], [111]
• Scourging, marks of, [116]
• Scurvy, and contusions, [115]
• Secondary flaccidity, [49]
• Sedative poisons, [232], [364 et seq.]
• Semen, [106], [122], [140 et seq.]
• Sepsis and septic poisons, [74], [79], [80], [112], [164], [232], [323], [334]
• Sex, [31], [51]
• Sheep wash (arsenic), [275], [287]
• Shell-fish, poisoning, [332], [380]
• Shock, [38], [75], [81], [112], [139], [234], [366], [375]
• Sickness, morning, in pregnancy, [152]
• Signs of death, [43 et seq.], [118], [127];
• delivery, [155], [156];
• pregnancy, [151 et seq].;
• rape, [143], [148], [149]
• Silk fibres, [92]
• Silver nitrate, [260], [265], [280], [283], [288], [370];
• test (hydrocyanic acid), [371]
• Skeleton, in identity, [31], [32]
• Skin, in burning, [111], [112], [115];
• drowning, [129];
• hanging, [123];
• infanticide, [167], [179];
• poisoning, [232], [233], [255], [274-77], [286], [288], [291], [293],
• [297], [306], [310], [330-32], [344], [349], [355], [368],
• [369], [374], [375-380], [382], [384], [399], [402];
• putrefaction, [55];
• strangling, [124];
• throttling, [125]
• Skull, fracture of, [32], [176]
• Sleep, in insanity, [206];
• poisoning, [235], [348];
• rape, [147]
• Snake venom, [232-34]
• Sneezing, in poisoning, [320], [367]
• Snuff, in poisoning, [366]
• Smith, Madeline, case, [275]
• Smokeless powder, [87]
• Smothering, [63]
• Soda, caustic, [262], [263]
• Sodium theosulphate, [373]
• Solanine, [352]
• Solicitors, [5]
• Somatic death, [42]
• Somnambulism, [206]
• Somniferous poisons, [231], [343]
• Somnolentia, or sleep-drunkenness, [206];
• law case: R. v. Milligan, [206]
• Sonnenschein‘s reagent, [335]
• Soot and arsenic, [275]
• Sorby, on blood stains, [93];
• cell, [105]
• Souffle, placental, [151], [154];
• uterine, [43], [151], [154]
• Spasms, in poisoning, [293], [320], [325], [344], [366]
• Spectra and spectroscope, [102], [103], [112], [136];
• in poisoning, [234], [320], [360], [362], [382], [399]
• Spinal cord, [59], [74], [231]
• Spink case, [294]
• Spleen, [54], [62], [238], [278], [305], [330], [378]
• Spontaneous combustion, [113]
• Spermatozoa, [95], [144-47], [187]
• Squill, [231]
• Stains, acid, [249], [251-54];
• blood, [79], [89 et seq.], [145];
• metallic, [108], [282];
• seminal, [145], [146];
• vegetable, &c., [108]
• Starch granules, [125], [179]
• Starvation, [132 et seq.], [178], [243]
• Stas‘s process, [319], [335], [337], [350], [365], [376]
• Stature, in identity, [31]
• Steam, scalding by, [110]
• Stephen, Lord, on insanity, [223]
• Sterility, in female, [188]; male, [187]
• Stertorous breathing, [368], [377], [397]
• Stevenson, on poisoning, [294], [332], [338]
• Stokes (Sir W.), on wounds, [87];
• fluid, [103], [104]
• Stomach, in drowning, [127], [131];
• infanticide, [168];
• poisoning, [232], [233], [237], [242], [246], [256-59], [263], [268], [275],
• [278-80], [288], [291-95], [299-301], [350], [355], [366],
• [369], [375-78];
• pump, [243], [244], [257], [269], [272], [286], [300], [307], [310],
• [322], [330-35], [345], [366], [386], [393], [402];
• putrefaction, [54];
• starvation, [135]
• Stramonium, [349], [351]
• Strangling, [63], [124 et seq.], [176]
• Strangury, [322]
• Strophanthus, [230]
• Strychnine, [229], [231], [238], [244], [337], [342], [348], [380], [388 et seq.], [402]
• Stupor, in melancholia, [204];
• in poisoning, [319], [349], [354], [356], [364], [366], [402]
• Styrian arsenic eaters, [287]
• Subpœna, [8]
• Sudden death, causes of, [42 et seq.]
• Suffocation, [63], [118 et seq.];
• infanticide, [176];
• poisoning, [243], [246], [330], [368], [390], [402]
• Suggillation (see Hypostasis), [45]
• Suicidal monomania, [203]
• Sulphonal, [230], [282]
• Sulphur, test in hcy. acid, [37];
• dioxide, [402]
• Sulphuretted hydrogen, [273], [280], [285], [295], [308], [312], [400]
• Sulphuric acid, [231], [247 et seq.], [261]
• Summons, Court. (See Citation.)
• Sunstroke, [136], [137]
• Superfœtation, [186]
• Surgical operations, [81]
• Survivorship, [133], [189]
• Symptoms, general, in poisoning, [235]
• Syncope, [38], [72], [118], [121], [127];
• in poisoning, [364], [366], [375]
• Tables—acids, colour of stains from, [254];
• symptoms of poisoning by, [261];
• aconite v. horse-radish, [375]:
• alcohol, brain concussion and opium,
• distinctions between, [356]:
• alkaloids, characters of, [342]:
• antimony and arsenic, reactions of, [296];
• symptoms of, [297]:
• arsenic, in liver, [238];
• precipitates (and of cadmium and tin), [281];
• symptoms of, [291]:
• bruises, date of, [116]:
• caustic potash, and soda, distinctions between, [263]:
• children, height and weight of, [134];
• maturity of, [174]:
• corrosive and irritant poisons, distinctions between, [234]:
• dead body, examination of, [71]:
• diseases, simulating irritant poisoning, [240-42];
• narcotic, [243]:
• embryo, development of, [35], [36]:
• epiphyses, union of, [34]:
• fœtus, death of, [181];
• measurements of, [37]:
• insanity, classification of, [197]:
• lead, symptoms of, [310]:
• leucomaines, [326]:
• lunacy certificates, [208-19]:
• meconic acid (and morphine), reactions of, [341]:
• mercuric and mercurous salts, reactions of, [302]:
• mushrooms, [359]:
• new born, age of, [180], [181];
• respiration in, [170]:
• ossification, centres of, [34]:
• osseous nucleus, dimensions of, [37]:
• poisoning, evidences of, [241]:
• poisons, actions of, [234];
• causes modifying, [234];
• classification of, [231];
• diffusion of, [233], [234];
• schedules of, [229], [230]:
• pregnancy, signs of, [151]:
• ptomaines, [323], [324]:
• putrefaction, order of, [53], [54];
• time and indications of, [55], [128]:
• rape, age in, [142];
• examination in, [142];
• signs of, [148]:
• rigor mortis, time and causes of, [49]:
• suffocation, death from, [121]:
• teeth, eruption of, [33]:
• tetanus, diagnosis of, [393]:
• uterus, size of, [157];
• weight of, [157]:
• wounds, types of, [84], [85]:
• Tamassia, on veins, [25]
• Tannic acid and tannin, [93], [365], [393]
• Tar, oil of, [254]
• Tarchette, on blood stains, [105], [107]
• Tardieu, on digitalis, [364];
• hanging, [122];
• tattoo marks, [23]
• Tattoo marks, [21], [23]
• Taylor, [52], [69], [70], [113], [164], [165], [194], [227], [231],
• [233], [238], [339], [368], [382], [397]
• Taylor, Bessie, case, [294]
• Teeth, [25], [33], [246], [259], [268], [299]
• Telangiectasis, [115]
• Temperature, body, [30], [45], [50], [132]
• Tests: acetanilide, [363];
• acetic acid, [262];
• aconite, [376];
• alcohol, [356];
• alkaloids, [335] et seq.;
• ammonia, [264];
• aniline, [362];
• antimony, [295et seq.];
• arsenic, [280 et seq.];
• barium, [315];
• belladonna, [350];
• blood, [90 et seq.];
• biological (blood), [105],
• (semen), [146];
• brucine, [393], [396];
• carbolic acid, [256];
• carbon disulphide, [380];
• caustic alkalies, [363];
• chloral, [381];
• chloroform, [379];
• chromium, [316];
• cocaine, [357];
• cocculus indicus, [358];
• conine, [386];
• copper, [312];
• death, [43 et seq.];
• digitaline, [365];
• eserine, [387];
• ether, [378];
• hydrochloric acid, [252];
• hydrocyanic acid, [370];
• iodine, [272];
• iron, [314];
• lead, [308 et seq.];
• lobelia, [367];
• lung, [170 et seq.];
• meconic acid, [335], [341];
• mercury, [302 et seq.];
• morphine, [335], [341];
• nicotine, [366];
• nitric acid, [250];
• nitrobenzene, [360];
• oxalic acid, [259];
• phenacetin and phenazonum, [363];
• phosphorus, [269];
• potassium salts, [272], [314], [373];
• semen, [145];
• strychnine, [392];
• sulphonal, [383];
• sulphuric acid, [248];
• veratrine, [367];
• veronal, [384];
• zinc, [265], [313]
• Testamentary capacity, [225]
• Testicles, in drowning, [112];
• infanticide, [64]
• Teichmann‘s blood crystals, [101]
• Tetanus, [64], [70], [235], [390], [394]
• Tetronal, [383]
• Thorpe‘s apparatus, [282]
• Throat, [59], [132];
• and poisoning, [232], [246], [259], [276], [293],
• [294], [306], [330], [332], [379]
• Throttling, [117], [125]
• Tichborne case, [23]
• Time of death, [30]
• Tidy, on infanticide, [170];
• starvation, [123]
• Tin, chloride of, [265], [281];
• tinned food, [331], [332]
• Tindall, on malpraxis, [190]
• Tobacco, [234], [365]
• Tongue, in drowning, [129];
• poisoning, [259], [276], [299];
• starvation, [123];
• suffocation, [119]
• Toxalbumoses, [329]
• Toxicohæmic poisons, [232], [334]
• Toxicology, [227 et seq.]
• Toxins, [232], [329]
• Trachea, in drowning, [130];
• poisoning, [247], [402];
• putrefaction, [54];
• suffocation, [118];
• tracheotomy, [244]
• Traill, on bismuth, [314];
• croton oil, [318]
• Treatment (general) in poisoning, [243], [247]
• Trichiniasis, [328], [333]
• Trichomonas vaginæ, [144]
• Uhlenhuth, on blood tests, [105]
• Ulceration of bowel, [294]
• Umbilical cord, [174], [177], [180], [182]
• Underwood v. Wing (survivorship), [189]
• United States, and murder, [69]
• Unsound mind, [192 et seq.] (See Insanity.)
• Uræmia, [40]
• Urethane, in strychnine, [393]
• Urine, in poisoning, [238], [239], [246], [256], [258], [276], [291], [293],
• [297], [305], [309], [311], [349], [370], [382], [401];
• stains, [96], [106]
• Uterine souffle, [151], [154]
• Uterus, contraction of, [154];
• double, [186];
• in abortion, [76], [162], [164];
• in burning, [112];
• delivery, [156];
• impotence and sterility, [188];
• poisoning, [242], [319], [322], [377];
• pregnancy, [76], [153];
• injury to, [76];
• P.-M. exam., [62], [65];
• putrefaction, [54];
• superfœtation, [186];
• table of size, [157];
• of weight, [157]
• Vagina, [142], [143], [156], [188]
• Vaginismus, [188]
• Vagitis uterinus, [170];
• vaginalis, [170]
• Van Gieson, on heat-stroke, [137]
• Vapour, arsenical, [286], [301];
• tests in hydrocyanic acid, [370], [371]
• Vaughan on, food poisons, [328], [333]
• Vegetable alkaloids, [335 et seq.];
• poisons, [231], [239], [317];
• stains, [108]
• Venesection, in electricity, [139]
• Verdicts, [6 et seq.]
• Vermilion, [301]
• Vermin-killers and arsenic, [275]
• Vernix caseosa, [64], [179]
• Veronal, [383]
• Vesicules, in burns, [110], [111], [113]
• Violence, in infanticide, [161], [178]
• Violet powder and arsenic, [275]
• Virchow and Zenker, on trichiniasis, [333]
• Virginity, signs of, [144], [149]
• Vital poisons, [231], [267];
• reaction, [45], [61], [79], [112]
• Vitalli‘s test (belladonna), [350]
• Volatile poisons, [244]
• Vomiting, [241-244], [258], [263], [275], [276], [277], [280], [292], [293],
• [295], [297], [299], [300], [306-11], [313], [320], [330-33], [360],
• [361], [364-68], [374], [378], [399]
• Vulnerant poisons, [231], [266]
• Wagner‘s method, [337];
• reagent, [335]
• Wall-papers and arsenic, [287]
• Warmth and putrefaction, [50]
• Warrant, coroner‘s, [4];
• Procurator-Fiscal‘s, [7]
• Wash, sheep‘s (or dip), and arsenic, [255], [287]
• Wassermann, on blood tests, [105]
• Water, gas, [400];
• lead in, [305], [306];
• and putrefaction, [53-55]
• Watt, on arsenic, [278]
• Weed-killers and arsenic, [275]
• Weight of children, [137];
• lungs, [174];
• uterus, [157]
• Wendt, on infanticide, [174]
• Westbury, Lord, on insanity, [195]
• Whitehead, on abortion, [160]
• Wightman, on survivorship, [189]
• Wills, drawing of, [191]
• Wills, on dying declarations, [18]
• Wilson, on note-taking, [19];
• lead poisoning, [305]
• Winslow, Forbes, on insanity, [192];
• test of death, [43]
• Witnesses, [3], [6], [8], [18], [19], [223]
• Wolffe‘s bottle, [283]
• Womb, in infanticide, [176]
• Wood, blood stains on, [91]
• Wool fibres, [90]
• Wormley‘s test (belladonna), [350]
• Wounds, in abortion, [163], [164];
• causes of death in, [80], [81];
• definition of, [69];
• in drowning, [129];
• examination of, [60 et seq.];
• infanticide, [175et seq.];
• varieties of, [70 et seq.]
• Wounds—law cases: R. v. Briggs, [69];
• M‘Laughlin, [69];
• Warman, [69]
• Wredin‘s test (live birth), [174]
• Writ of Court, [8];
• lunacy, [224]
• Wynne (Sir W.), on insanity, [196]
• X-rays, [77], [110], [114], [115]
• Yew, [321]
• Zinc, chloride, [265];
• sulphate, [300], [313], [331]

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Footnotes:

[1] Monthly Journal of Medical Science, 1851.

[2] Edinburgh Medical Journal, February 1876.

[3] Friedenthal, Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie, 1900, p. 494.

[4] Deutsch, Bulletin Medical, Sept. 8, 1900; and Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Band xxix. p. 661.

[5] Uhlenhuth, Deutsch Medicinische Wochenschrift, 1901, Nos. 6, 17, 45.

[6] Wasserman and Schutze, Berlin Klin. Wochenschr., Feb. 21, 1901.

[7] Nuttall, Jour. Hygiene, vol. i., 1901, p. 367; B. M. J., vol. i., 1901, p. 669.

[8] Tarchetti, Gazz. degli Osped., May 19, 1901; B. M. J., vol. i., 1901.

[9] Grünbaum, Lancet, Jan. 18, 1902.

[10] Metchnikoff, Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, April 18, 1901.

[11] M‘Weeney, Jour. State Med., vol. ix. No. 7, p. 378. Lancet, June 18, 1910.

[12] M‘Weeney, Lancet, June 18, 1910.

[13] Cunningham, New York Med. Journ., 1890, p. 287.

[14] Journ. Amer. Med. Assoc., 1901, p. 1721.

[15] Fyshe or Fisher v. Palmer, in 1806.

[16] Manual of Midwifery, 1886.

[17] Archbold‘s Criminal Cases.

[18] Or not to be.

[19] Dilution lessens the activity of some poisons, by prolonging the time necessary for their absorption; but in the case of powerful irritants, which act through the blood, moderate dilution increases their activity, by enabling them to enter the vessels more easily. Oxalic acid is an example of the effect of dilution as a modifying agent in its action. A small concentrated dose acts as an irritant; diluted, it is soon absorbed, and quickly causes death.

[20] The sulphates of alkaloids are insoluble in ether; hence they must be decomposed by an alkali.

[21] The temperature should be low, or the greater part of the conine will be evaporated with the ether.

Transcriber’s Notes:

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