Text-book of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

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Author

Buchanan, R. J. M. (Robert James McLean), 1864-1925

Title

Text-book of forensic medicine and toxicology

Original Publication

New York: William Wood, 1915.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Poisons

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74804

Release Date

November 27, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TEXT-BOOK OF FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.INTRODUCTION
7. 7.CHAPTER I LEGAL CRIMINAL PROCEDURE — ENGLAND AND IRELAND — SCOTLAND — Citation of Witnesses—Subpœna — FEES ALLOWED TO MEDICAL WITNESSES
8. 8.CHAPTER II MEDICAL EVIDENCE GENERALLY — 1. DOCUMENTARY — 2. ORAL OR PAROL — 3. EXPERIMENTAL — Identity — Examination of a Person said to have been Assaulted — Identity of the Dead
9. 9.CHAPTER III MODES OF DYING, SUDDEN DEATH, SIGNS OF DEATH — MODES OF DYING — SUDDEN DEATH — SIGNS OF DEATH — Real Death — Exceptions. — Cutaneous Hypostasis — External Conditions Which Modify Putrefaction — Internal Conditions Which Modify Putrefaction — THE PHENOMENA OF PUTRESCENCE IN THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER — 1. External — 2. Internal — Organs which Putrefy Early — Organs which Putrefy Late
10. 10.CHAPTER IV POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS AND EXHUMATIONS — I. Part of General Directions — II. Necessary Implements — III. External Aspect, and Examination of the Body — IV. Dissection, or Internal Examination of the Body — V. Examination in Cases of Wounds and Contusions — VI. Examination in Cases of Poisoning — VII. Examination in Cases of Suffocation — VIII. Examination in Cases of Burning — IX. Examination in Cases of Criminal Abortion — X. Examination in Cases of Infanticide — EXHUMATIONS
11. 11.CHAPTER V ASSAULTS, HOMICIDE, AND WOUNDS — (1) Murder. (2) Culpable Homicide. — WOUNDS — INJURIES OF SPECIAL REGIONS — Injuries of the Head and Spine — Wounds of the Throat and Chest — Injuries of the Abdomen — FRACTURES OF BONES — Is the Wound Suicidal, Homicidal, or Accidental? — Duties of a Medical Man When Called to Examine a Wounded Person — PRETENDED ASSAULT — THE CAUSES OF DEATH FROM WOUNDS — 1. Direct — 2. Indirect — 3. Malum regimen — THE SEVERAL KINDS OF WOUNDS — 1. Incised Wounds — 2. Punctured Wounds — 3. Lacerated and Contused Wounds — 4. Gunshot Wounds
12. 12.CHAPTER VI BLOOD-STAINS — EXAMINATION OF BLOOD-STAINS — Physical Examination — Microscopical Examination — Chemical Examination — Spectroscopic Examination — Blood Spectra — Biological Tests for Blood — Vegetable and other Stains which resemble Blood
13. 13.CHAPTER VII BURNS AND SCALDS, CONTUSIONS AND BRUISES — BURNS AND SCALDS — Post-mortem Appearances — Preternatural Combustibility — Burns due to X-Rays — CONTUSIONS AND BRUISES
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII SUFFOCATION, HANGING, STRANGLING, AND THROTTLING — SUFFOCATION — HANGING — STRANGLING — THROTTLING
15. 15.CHAPTER IX DROWNING — Recapitulation of the Post-mortem Appearances in the Drowned — I. External — II. Internal
16. 16.CHAPTER X DEATH FROM STARVATION, COLD, HEAT, BY LIGHTNING AND ELECTRICITY — DEATH FROM STARVATION — DEATH FROM COLD — DEATH FROM EXPOSURE TO HEAT — DEATH BY LIGHTNING AND ELECTRICITY — LIGHTNING — Industrial Electricity
17. 17.CHAPTER XI OFFENCES AGAINST CHASTITY — RAPE — VIRGINITY
18. 18.CHAPTER XII PREGNANCY — Signs of Pregnancy — Uncertain Signs — Certain Signs — Diagnosis of Pregnancy — DELIVERY — 1. Signs of Recent Delivery in the Living — 2. Signs of Recent Delivery in the Dead — 3. Signs of a Previous Delivery
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII FŒTICIDE, OR CRIMINAL ABORTION — 1. Natural or Accidental — 2. Violent
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV INFANTICIDE — DEFINITION OF THE TERM “LIVE BIRTH” IN CRIMINAL CASES — DEFINITION OF THE TERM “LIVE BIRTH” IN CIVIL CASES — CAUSE OF DEATH TO THE FŒTUS — 1. In Favour of Precipitate Birth and Accidental Injury — 2. In Favour of Criminal Violence
21. 21.CHAPTER XV INHERITANCE—LEGITIMACY—IMPOTENCE AND STERILITY —SURVIVORSHIP—MALPRAXIS AND NEGLECT OF DUTY —FEIGNED DISEASES—EXEMPTION FROM PUBLIC DUTIES—WILLS — INHERITANCE — LEGITIMACY — IMPOTENCE AND STERILITY — SURVIVORSHIP — MALPRAXIS AND NEGLECT OF DUTY — FEIGNED DISEASES—MALINGERING — EXEMPTION FROM PUBLIC DUTIES — WILLS
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI MENTAL UNSOUNDNESS — DEFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FACULTIES — CARE OF MENTALLY DEFECTIVE PERSONS — GENERAL SYMPTOMS OF INSANITY — MANIA — MORAL MANIA — MELANCHOLIA — DEMENTIA OR FATUITY — DELIRIUM TREMENS. SIMPLE DELIRIUM. SOMNAMBULISM. SLEEP-DRUNKENNESS. — THE RESTRAINT OF THE INSANE AND DIRECTIONS FOR SIGNING MEDICAL CERTIFICATES. — LIABILITIES OF PERSONS SIGNING LUNACY CERTIFICATES — LIABILITIES OF PERSONS RECEIVING INSANE PATIENTS — TESTAMENTARY CAPACITY — RESTRAINT OF HABITUAL DRUNKARDS
23. 23.CHAPTER I — GENERAL EVIDENCE AND DIAGNOSIS OF POISONING — GENERAL TREATMENT OF CASES OF POISONING — EXAMINATION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE STOMACH, VISCERA, ETC., FOR POISON
24. 24.CHAPTER II DIVISION I.—CHEMICAL — CORROSIVE POISONS — THE MINERAL ACIDS — THE ALKALIES — CAUSTIC SALTS — VULNERANT
25. 25.CHAPTER III DIVISION II.—VITAL — METALLOID IRRITANTS — PHOSPHORUS — IODINE — IODIDE OF POTASSIUM
26. 26.CHAPTER IV METALLIC IRRITANTS — ARSENIC — Cacodylic Acid — ANTIMONY — Tartar Emetic — MERCURY — LEAD — COPPER — ZINC — IRON — BISMUTH — POTASSIUM — BARIUM — CHROMIUM
27. 27.CHAPTER V VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL IRRITANTS — SAVIN — CROTON OIL — COLCHICUM — ERGOT — BLACK HELLEBORE — WHITE HELLEBORE — GAMBOGE — JALAP — SCAMMONY — CASTOR-OIL — ARUM MACULATUM — YEW — LABURNUM — FOOL‘S PARSLEY — BRYONY — ELATERIUM — CANTHARIDES — PUTREFACTIVE OR BACTERIAL ALKALOIDS — LEUCOMAINES OR ANIMAL ALKALOIDS
28. 28.CHAPTER VI FOOD POISONING (BROMATOTOXISMUS) — Meat Poisoning (Kreotoxismus) — Fish Poisoning (Ichthyotoxismus) — Poisoning by Milk and Milk Products — TRICHINIASIS — TOXICOHÆMIC, SNAKE POISONS, ETC.
29. 29.CHAPTER VII THE VEGETABLE ALKALOIDS — Alkaloidal Group Reagents — Methods for detecting Vegetable Alkaloids
30. 30.CHAPTER VIII NARCOTIC POISONS — Somniferous OPIUM
31. 31.CHAPTER IX DELIRIANT POISONS — BELLADONNA — HYOSCYAMUS — STRAMONIUM — ŒNANTHE CROCATA — CAMPHOR — SALICYLIC ACID
32. 32.CHAPTER X INEBRIANT POISONS — ALCOHOL — COCAINE — COCCULUS INDICUS — LOLIUM TEMULENTUM — POISONOUS FUNGI — NITROBENZENE, OR ESSENCE OF MIRBANE — DINITROBENZENE — ANILINE — ACETANILIDE (ANTIFEBRIN), PHENAZONUM (ANTIPYRIN), AND PHENACETIN
33. 33.CHAPTER XI SEDATIVE POISONS — DIGITALIS — TOBACCO — LOBELIA — VERATRINE — HYDROCYANIC ACID — ACONITE
34. 34.CHAPTER XII CEREBRAL POISONS — ETHER — CHLOROFORM — CARBON BISULPHIDE — CHLORAL HYDRATE — SULPHONAL — TRIONAL AND TETRONAL — VERONAL
35. 35.CHAPTER XIII NEURAL POISONS — CONIUM — CALABAR BEAN
36. 36.CHAPTER XIV EXCITOMOTORY POISONS — NUX VOMICA — STRYCHNINE — BRUCINE
37. 37.CHAPTER XV IRRESPIRABLE GASES — CARBON DIOXIDE — CARBON MONOXIDE — WATER GAS — SULPHURETTED HYDROGEN — COAL GAS — COMBUSTION GASES — ACETYLENE GAS — NITROGEN MONOXIDE, NITROUS OXIDE — PETROL FUMES — NAPHTHA, BENZOL OR BENZENE — SULPHUR DIOXIDE — CHLORINE — PHOSPHORETTED HYDROGEN
38. 38.INDEX
39. 39.Untitled

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