Death and sudden death / by P. Brouardel and F. Lucas Benham.

  • Paul Brouardel
Date:
1902
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Credit: Death and sudden death / by P. Brouardel and F. Lucas Benham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS PART I THE SIGNS OF DEATH LECTURE PAGE I. The Moment of Death.—Apparent Death - - i Determination of the moment of death.—At what moment does life cease ?- - - - - - 2 Apparent death ...... g II. The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death, .and Prema- ture Buri.al - - - - - - 19 Uncertainty of the signs of death - - - - 20 Predisposition to apparent death - - - - 33 Premature burial - - - - - - 40 III. The Signs of Death - - - - - 42 Insensibility - - - - - - 42 Motility - - - - - - ■ - 45 Respiration - - - - - - - 49 Circulation - - - - - - - 5° Cadaveric sugillations - - - - - 55 Temperature - - - - - 56 Parchment patches.—Burns - - - - 59 IV. Rigor Mortis - - - - - - 63 V. Putrefaction 75 General theory - - - - - - 75 Putrefaction in the open air - - - - 78 Putrefaction in different media - - - - 82 Cadaveric alkaloids - - - - - 84 Putrefaction of different organs - - - - 90 Preservation of dead bodies - - - - 93 VI. Cremation.—Mummification - - - - 99 Cremation - - - - - 99 Embalming - - - - , - - - 100 Mummification .... . . loi VII. Legislation.—Medico-Legal Applications - - no