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

  • Benham F. Lucas.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Death and sudden death / by P. Brouardel ; translated by F. Lucas Benham. 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.

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    CONTENTS. PART I. THE SIGNS OF DEATH. LECTURE PAGE I. The Moment of Death.—Apparent Death - 17 Determination of the moment of death.—At what moment does life cease ? - - - - 18 Apparent death - - - - 25 II. The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death, and Prema- ture Burial - - - - 30 Uncertainty of the signs of death - - 31 Predisposition to apparent death - - 43 Premature burial - - - - - 48 III. The Signs of Death - - - -50 Insensibility - - - - '5° Motility - - - - *53 Respiration - - - - 56 Circulation - - - - 56 Cadaveric suggillations - - - - 60 Temperature post-mortem - - - - 62 Parchment patches.—Burns - - 65 IV. Rigor Mortis - - - - - 69 V. Putrefaction - - - - - 79 General theory - - - - - 79 Putrefaction in the open air - 82 Putrefaction in different media - - - 86 Cadaveric alkaloids - - - - 88 Putrefaction of different organs - - - 94 Preservation of dead bodies - - - 97 VI. Cremation.—Mummification - - - 103 Cremation ..... I0., Embalming - - - . lo^ Mummification ..... 1o- VII. Legislation.—Medico-Legal Applications - - m