Outline of lectures on medical jurisprudence in the University of Aberdeen.

  • University of Aberdeen.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: Outline of lectures on medical jurisprudence in the University of Aberdeen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Defloration and Eape—Continued. VIOLATION OF THE FEMALE UNDER PUBERTY. Occasional amount of injury in such cases. Absurd notions as to the effect of such connections. Indecent practices on female infants. Relaxation of the legal proof in the case of infants. False charges thus facilitated. Coition without penetration, and its effects on the female genitals. Diseased states liable to be mistaken for the effects of Im¬ pure Connection. Peculiar inflammatory affection of the Pudendum. Spurious Gonorrhoea. Instances of children laying themselves out for Libidinous practices. Effects of such practices on the Person and Genitals. VIOLATION OF THE PUBERANT VIRGIN. Signs of Virginity. The state of the Labia. The state of the Nymphse. The condition of the Clitoris. The state of the Fourchette. The existence of the Hymen. The Carunculse Myrtiformes. The Vaginal Orifice. The condition of the Pubic Arch. Uncertainty of these signs, singly or in combination. Liability to be confounded with the Effects of Mastur¬ bation. Signs of Defloration. From the state of the Genitals. Variable extent of these. Not dependant on Coition alone. From the presence of Semilal and other Stains on the Woman’s Clothes. Blood Stains. Stains from Urine, Faeces, &c. Seminal Stains. Physical character.