Case 2. Criminal Exposure to Cold (Ann. d’Hygiene, 1868, Vol. II., p. 173).—Girl, unmarried; sudden delivery when at stool. She stated that she had fainted, and found the child dead when she recovered. The child had breathed and the cord was cut. No marks of violence. Evidence of death being caused by wilful exposure. Imprisoned.
Case 3. Ill-Treatment and Criminal Exposure (Ann. d’ Hygiene, Vol. VI., p. 207, 1831).—Man and wife tried for manslaughter of a child, æt. 11. Wife the stepmother. Starvation and ill-treatment by mother, followed by forcing the child, in a cold December day, to get into a barrel of cold water and remain there. Though removed by a servant, she was again placed in the cold water by the mother, death resulting. The woman was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Case 4. Sunstroke, High Temperature, etc. (Dr. A. Flint, Jr., New York Med. Jour., 1872, p. 168; Dr. Katzenbach, New York Med. Jour., 1873, p. 93).
Case 5. Scald, Drinking from a Tea-kettle. Accidental (Mr. Sympson, Brit. Med. Jour., 1875, June 19th, p. 809).—Boy, æt. 2½ years, drank boiling water from spout of tea-kettle. Inflammation of pharynx and glottis. Tracheotomy; recovered.
Case 6. Fatal Scald of Insane Person in a Bath (Brit. Med. Jour., April, 1871, p. 456).—An insane patient fatally scalded in a bath, through carelessness of an attendant. The charge of manslaughter brought against the attendant.
Case 7. Fatal Burn of Genitals. Accidental (Caspar, “Forensic Med.,” Vol. I., p. 315).—Female child, 2½ years, fell on a hot flat-iron. Genitals burned; died in eleven days. Vagina gangrenous; blood fluid; lungs anæmic and pale; trachea bright red, etc.
Case 8. Red, Parchmenty Skin, Cracks, etc. (Caspar, “Forensic Med.,” Vol. I., p. 307).—While a chimney-sweep was cleaning a chimney a fire was lighted below. Death. The entire skin was of a coppery red color, with yellow patches. No carbonization. Skin parchmenty, with fissures upon the edges of which the fat had melted and flowed out.
Case 9. Asphyxia. Sooty Mucus, etc. (Caspar, “Forensic Med.,” Vol. I., p. 314).—Two children, æt. 3 and 7, burned; death from asphyxia. The youngest, the girl, burned externally; the boy was not. Post mortem in both showed the trachea to contain frothy and sooty mucus. Lungs and vessels of thorax and abdomen distended with dark and fluid blood. Brain congested, etc.
Case 10. Burn of Body. Inflammation of Stomach (Amer. Jour. Med. Sciences, Jan., 1861, p. 137).—Superficial burn of lower part of body. Death on the thirteenth day. Post-mortem examination showed the stomach inflamed and the intestines also.
Case 11. Accidental Scald. Pleurisy (Caspar, “Forensic Med.,” Vol. I., p. 312).—Female child, æt. 6; scalded with a pot of boiling coffee overturned upon the side of neck, right axilla, thorax, and right arm. Death on the eighth day. Post-mortem examination revealed inflammation of right pleura, pericardial effusion, etc. Body anæmic.