Outlines of medical jurisprudence for India / by J.D.B. Gribble and Patrick Hehir.

  • Gribble, J. D. B. (James Dunning Baker), -1906.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Outlines of medical jurisprudence for India / by J.D.B. Gribble and Patrick Hehir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Case No. LIV.—Gouging out the eyes. In 1854, a very brutal case was tried at Mangalore, in which the para- mour of a married woman, becoming tired of her or jealous, gouged out her eyes with a curved knife and a needle. The woman recovered.— (Foujdaree Udalut, 1854.) Chevers gives a case of a man who gouged out both the eyes of his wife with his fingers, and otherwise maltreated her, because she declined to have connection with him. being very young. In Macnaghten's Reports (Vol. II, 427), a case is given of a man who, having tied the hands and feet of his wife, threw her clown, sat upon her breast, and put out her eyes with a heated iron In the case of bodies found exposed in the fields or jungle, it should be remembered that the eyes are generally the parts first attacked by birds of prey.