A manual of legal medicine : for the use of practitioners and students of medicine and law / by Justin Herold.

Date:
1902
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A manual of legal medicine : for the use of practitioners and students of medicine and law / by Justin Herold. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CHAPTER XXXI. PAGB The Medico-Legal Aspect of Electricity—Remarks—Resistance of the Human Body to Electric Currents—Symptoms produced by Powerful Discharges of Electricity—Methods for Resuscitation from Electric Shock—Death from Electricity—Post-Mortem Appearances—Electrocution—Conclusions Rela- tive to Electricity and the Death Penalty—Executions, etc., in the State of New York 390 Lightning—Effects of the Current of Electricity—Cause of Death—Symptoms— Injuries due to Lightning—Post-Mortem Signs—Medico-Legal Relations of Death from Lightning 413 CHAPTER XXXII. Death by Heat and Cold—Animal Heat and the Extremes of Temperature— Effects of Extreme Heat on the Body—Sunstroke, etc.—Post-Mortem Ap- pearances—Effects of Cb/rf—Symptoms—Treatment—Post-Mortem Signs . 419 Death by Starvation—Remarks—Symptoms of Acute and Chronic Starvation— Period at which Death occurs—Post-Mortem Signs—Accidental, Homicidal, and Suicidal Starvation—Medico-Legal Relations 426 CHAPTER XXXin. Pregnancy—Medico-Legal Relations—The Signs of Pregnancy—Precocious Preg- nancy — Late Pregnancy — Unconscious Pregnancy — Post-Mortem Preg- nancy 430 CHAPTER XXXIV. Criminal Abortion—General Remarks—Spontaneous or Natural Abortion—Arti- ficial (Therapeutic or Criminal) Abortion — Means employed to procure Abortion—Diagnosis—Age of the Foetus—At what Stage of Pregnancy has the Abortion occurred ?—Sequelae—Duties of the Legal Physician in Cases of Criminal Abortion—Signs afforded by the Mother—Examination of Sub- stances expelled from the Uterus—Examination of Instruments, Drugs, etc., in Possession of the Suspected Individual—Medico-Legal Bearings CHAPTER XXXV. Infanticide—General Considerations—Definition—j^wifj^-zowj relating to the In- fant—V^a.?. the Child bom Alive?—If the Child was born Alive, how long did it survive?—Proofs that the Child has breathed—Viability—Was the Death due to Natural Causes or to Violence ?—Was the Violence Accidental or Crim- inal ?—Mode of conducting the Post-Mortem Examination, and the Evidence to be obtained \!(\Q.x&{xQm—Questio7is relating to the Mother in a Case of Infanticide—T\\^ Signs of Delivery—The Signs furnished by the Early Ex- amination of the Woman—Examination of the Milk—Concealed Delivery Concealment of Birth—Feigned Delivery