A manual of medical jurisprudence for India : including the outline of a history of crime against the person in India / by Norman Chevers.

  • Chevers, Norman, 1818-1886.
Date:
1870
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Credit: A manual of medical jurisprudence for India : including the outline of a history of crime against the person in India / by Norman Chevers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Page STRANGULATION.—{Continued). Compression of the Throat with a Cord, Cloth, or Stalk .... 587 Rendered insensible by Blows, and strangled. ..... 589 Drugs or Liquor, and strangled .... 590 Strangled, and then hanged by the neck . . . . . ib. HANGING. 593 Suspension by the neck of murdered bodies . . . . . . ib. Suicidal Hanging ......... 599 Murder by Hanging ......... ib. Persons misused and hanged while living ...... 600 Apparently drowned, but probably hanged . . . . .601 Murdered by Drowning, and then hanged ...... 604 Signs of Death by Hanging ....... . ib. Congestion of face and scalp ..... ib. Meningeal and Cerebral Congestion and Effusion . . 605 Protrusion of the Tongue and Eyes .... 607 - Mark of the Cord . .... 608 Ecchymosis of the Muscles ..... 609 Injury to the neck . ..... 610 Evidence of Suicidal Hanging . . . . . . .611 Precautions to be taken by the Police . . . ib. SUFFOCATION 613 Drugged and Suffocated . . . . . . . . ib. Necessity of Examining the abdominal organs in cases of Suffocation . .615 Cloths, &c, forced into the mouth ....... 616 Drunkards suffocated in the act of vomiting . . . . . .617 Suffocated by Living Fish . . . . . . . .618 Punctiform Ecchymosis as proof of Suffocation ..... 620 Did death result frem Strangulation or Suffocation ? . . . 621, 843 Suffocation by Gases ......... ib. SMOTHERING 622 DROWNING '. . .623 Drowning in Epilepsy, &c. . ....... ib. Gunga-Jatra, or Ghat Murder ....... 625 Children drowned in Wells, &c. ...... . 626 for their Ornaments ...... 629 Adults drowned in Wells ........ 630 Drowning by homicidal violence ....... 632 Murdered Bodies thrown into Wells ....... 635 Strangled and thrown into Wells or Tanks . . . . . . ib. Murdered bodies sunk in Blankets, &c. ...... 637 Judicial Drowning ......... ib. Suicide by Drowning ......... 638 Note on the time at which submerged bodies rise in India .... 640 External Signs of Drowning ........ 641 State of the Brain ......... 642 Cervical Vertebra? fractured in the Drowned . . . . . . ib. Internal Signs of Drowning ......... ib. Foreign matters in the air-passages ....... 644 Mucous Froth in Trachea and Lungs. . . . . . . ib. Condition of the Thoracic Organs in Asphyxia ..... 645 Appearances simulating those of Drowning . ..... 652 BURIAL ALIVE (Samadh) 653 A Mahomedan punishment ........ ib.