Text-book of medical jurisprudence and toxicology / by John J. Reese.

  • Reese, John J. (John James), 1818-1892.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Text-book of medical jurisprudence and toxicology / by John J. Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    fleshy coverings; the eyes enormously swollen; the body has been dead, probably, from two to four months. The above inferences, it will be remembered, are only approximative, as already stated. They cannot be positive under any circumstances; and, moreover, they are predicated on the supposition that the body under examination has not been buried, but exposed to the action of the atmosphere. It is important that the legal physician should avoid giving a very positive opinion on this question, as it must, at best, be but conjectural, and dependent on so many contingencies.