CONTENTS

[PART I]

FORENSIC MEDICINE

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I.[Crimes][1]
II.[Medical Evidence][2]
III.[Personal Identity][10]
IV.[Examination of Persons found Dead][12]
V.[Modes of Sudden Death][13]
VI.[Signs of Death][16]
VII.[Death from Anæsthetics, etc.][19]
VIII.[Presumption of Death; Survivorship][20]
IX.[Assaults, Murder, Manslaughter, etc.][21]
X.[Wounds and Mechanical Injuries][21]
XI.[Contused Wounds, etc.][22]
XII.[Incised Wounds][23]
XIII.[Gunshot Wounds][24]
XIV.[Wounds of Various Parts of the Body][26]
XV.[Detection of Blood-Stains, etc.][30]
XVI.[Death by Suffocation][34]
XVII.[Death by Hanging][35]
XVIII.[Death by Strangulation][35]
XIX.[Death by Drowning][36]
XX.[Death from Starvation][38]
XXI.[Death from Lightning and Electricity][38]
XXII.[Death from Cold or Heat][39]
XXIII.[Pregnancy][40]
XXIV.[Delivery][41]
XXV.[Fœticide or Criminal Abortion][42]
XXVI.[Infanticide][44]
XXVII.[Evidences of Live-Birth][46]
XXVIII.[Cause of Death in the Fœtus][50]
XXIX.[Duration of Pregnancy][50]
XXX.[Viability of Children][51]
XXXI.[Legitimacy][52]
XXXII.[Superfœtation][53]
XXXIII.[Inheritance][54]
XXXIV.[Impotence and Sterility][54]
XXXV.[Rape][55]
XXXVI.[Unnatural Offences][59]
XXXVII.[Blackmailing][60]
XXXVIII.[Marriage and Divorce][60]
XXXIX.[Feigned Diseases][63]
XL.[Mental Unsoundness][67]
XLI.[Idiocy, Imbecility, Cretinism][68]
XLII.[Dementia][70]
XLIII.[Mania, Lucid Intervals,Undue Influence, Responsibility, etc.][71]
XLIV.[Examination of Persons of Unsound Mind][76]
XLV.[Inebriates Acts][78]

[PART II]

TOXICOLOGY

I.[Definition of a Poison][80]
II.[Scheduled Poisons][80]
III.[Classification of Poisons][83]
IV.[Evidence of Poisoning][85]
V.[Symptoms and Post-MortemAppearances of Different Classes of Poisons][86]
VI.[Duty of Practitioner in Supposed Case of Poisoning][89]
VII.[Treatment of Poisoning][90]
VIII.[Detection of Poison][91]
IX.[The Mineral Acids][94]
X.[Sulphuric Acid][95]
XI.[Nitric Acid][97]
XII.[Hydrochloric Acid][98]
XIII.[Oxalic Acid][98]
XIV.[Carbolic Acid][100]
XV.[Potash, Soda, and Ammonia][101]
XVI.[Nitrate of Potassium, etc.][103]
XVII.[Potassium Salts, etc.][103]
XVIII.[Barium Salts][104]
XIX.[Iodine—Iodide of Potassium][104]
XX.[Phosphorus][105]
XXI.[Arsenic and its Preparations][107]
XXII.[Antimony and its Preparations][112]
XXIII.[Mercury and its Preparations][113]
XXIV.[Lead and its Preparations][116]
XXV.[Copper and its Preparations][117]
XXVI.[Zinc, Silver, Bismuth, and Chromium][118]
XXVII.[Gaseous Poisons][120]
XXVIII.[Vegetable Irritants][123]
XXIX.[Opium and Morphine][124]
XXX.[Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, and Stramonium][127]
XXXI.[Cocaine][128]
XXXII.[Camphor][129]
XXXIII.[Tetrachlorethane][129]
XXXIV.[Alcohol, Ether, and Chloroform][130]
XXXV.[Chloral Hydrate][134]
XXXVI.[Petroleum and Paraffin Oil][134]
XXXVII.[Antipyrine, Antefebrin, Phenacetin, and Aniline][135]
XXXVIII.[Sulphonal, Trional, Tetronal, Veronal, Paraldehyde][137]
XXXIX.[Conium and Calabar Bean][138]
XL.[Tobacco and Lobelia][139]
XLI.[Hydrocyanic Acid][140]
XLII.[Aconite][143]
XLIII.[Digitalis][144]
XLIV.[Nux Vomica, Strychnine, and Brucine][145]
XLV.[Cantharides][146]
XLVI.[Abortifacients][147]
XLVII.[Poisonous Fungi and Toxic Foods][148]
XLVIII.[Ptomaines or Cadaveric Alkaloids][150]
[Index][152]