A manual of medical jurisprudence / by Alfred Swaine Taylor.

  • Alfred Swaine Taylor
Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of medical jurisprudence / by Alfred Swaine Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER 48. The hydrostatic test—Sinking of the lungs from disease or atelectasis— Life with perfect atelectasis or entire absence of air from the Lungs— Erroneous medical inference from sinking of the lungs—Floating of the lungs from putrefaction—Effects of putrefaction on the lungs pages 526—533 CHAPTER 49. Floating of the lungs from artificial inflation—Inflation not distinguishable from imperfect respiration—Results of compression—Improper objections to the hydrostatic test—Respiration before birth—Respiration a sign of life, not of live birth—General conclusions . . pages 533—540 CHAPTER 50. On the proofs of a child having been born alive—Evidence from respiration —From marks of violence—From natural changes in the foetal vessels— From the discovery of food in the stomach—General conclusions pages 540—551 CHAPTER 51. Causes of death in new-born children—Proportion of children born dead— Natural causes of death—A protracted delivery—Debility—Bleeding from laceration of the navel-string—Compression of the navel-string— Malformation—Destruction of monstrous births—Death from congenital disease pagks 551—558 CHAPTER 52. Violent causes of death—Suffocation—Drowning—Death of the child from cold and exposure—Starvation—Death from immaturity—Wounds in new-born children—Fractures of the skull, accidental and criminal— Twisting of the neck—Violence in selt-delivery—Power of locomotion and exertion in females after delivery . . . pages 558—573 CHAPTER 53. Death of the child from strangulation—Strangulation by the navel-string— Accidental marks resembling those of strangulation—Constriction before and after death—Before and after breathing—Before and after the sever- ance of the navel-string—Examination of women—Medical responsibility pages 573—584 BIRTH. INHERITANCE. CHAPTER 54. Live birth in civil cases—Date of birth—Signs of live birth independently of respiration or crying—Vagitus uterinus—Tenancy by courtesy—Legal birth—Post-mortem births—Minority and majority—Plural and mon- strous births pages 584—595