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Title: Aids to Forensic Medicine and

Toxicology

Author: W. G. Aitchison Robertson

Release Date: August 10, 2006 [EBook

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Language: English

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AIDS

TO

FORENSIC

MEDICINE AND

TOXICOLOGY

BY

W.G. AITCHISON

ROBERTSON

M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P.E.

LECTURER ON FORENSIC MEDICINE,

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, EDINBURGH;

LATE EXAMINER IN THE UNIVERSITIES

OF EDINBURGH AND ST. ANDREWS;

FOR THE TRIPLE BOARD; DIPLOMA IN

PUBLIC HEALTH, ETC.

NINTH EDITION

TWENTIETH

LONDON

BAILLIÈRE, TINDALL AND COX

8, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden

1922

PREFACE TO

NINTH EDITION

I trust that, having thoroughly revised the

"Aids to Forensic Medicine," it may

prove as useful to students preparing for

examination in the future as it has been

in the past.

W.G. AITCHISON ROBERTSON.

Surgeons' Hall,

Edinburgh,

November, 1921.

PREFACE TO

EIGHTH EDITION

This work of the late Dr. William

Murrell having met with such a large

measure of success, the publishers

thought it would be well to bring out a

new edition, and invited me to revise the

last impression.

This I have done, and while retaining

Dr. Murrell's text closely, I have made

large additions, in order to bring the

"Aids" up to present requirements. I

have also rearranged the matter with the

object of making the various sections

more consecutive than they were

previously.

W.G. AITCHISON ROBERTSON.

Surgeons' Hall,

Edinburgh.

June, 1914.

CONTENTS

PART I

FORENSIC MEDICINE

PAGE

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

Detection of Blood-

XV. 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

Evidences of Live-

XXVII. 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

Idiocy, Imbecility,

XLI. 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￾Mortem Appearances

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