The student's handbook of forensic medicine and medical police / by H. Aubrey Husband.

Date:
1874
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The student's handbook of forensic medicine and medical police / by H. Aubrey Husband. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

    19/362 (page 7)
    No tender of fees is necessary in criminal cases, ' except in the case of witnesses living in one distinct part of the United Kingdom being required to attend subpoenas directing their attendance in another, who are not liable to punishment for disobedience of the process, unless at the time of service a reasonable and sufficient sum of money to defray their expenses in coming, attending, and returning have been ten- dered to them.' When summoned to two cases, one civd, the other criminal, the witness must attend the criminal; when both cases are the same, the one to which he first received the subpoena. C. EXPERIMENTAL. Under this head will be treated the examination of the living and of the dead, identity, real and appa- rent death, cause of death, and experiments with the weapons alleged to have been used; exhumations, and autopsies. EXAMINATION OF THE LIVING. With regard to the identification of the living, the opinion of a medical man is seldom sought. It is only in cases where questions have arisen as to the presence and character of certain marks on the body, or of doubtful sex, that a medical man may be con- sulted. The marks which most frequently give rise to differences of opinion are ncevi materni, scars, and tattoo marks. In cases of doubtful sex the male organs may resemble the female, the female the male, or they may be blended together in about equal proportions. The following questions may bo put to the medical expert:— a. Do scars ever disappear ? I). Can the age of a scar he definitely staled? c. Can tattooing, when, once present, ever become thoroughly effaced by time ?