Medical jurisprudence / by Alfred S. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Medical jurisprudence / by Alfred S. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    uncertainty of the law regard- ing, 773. Plural births, 506. Ploucquet's test, 366. Poison, definition of, 1; law re- specting the administration of, 3 ; influence of habit on, 5 ; of idiosyncrasy, 7; irritants and corrosives, 8 ; narcotic and narcotico-irritants, 9 ; slow and rapid death from, 18 ; effects modified by disease, 11; gase- ous, 684. Poisoned articles of food, identity of, 31. Poisoning, feigned and imputed, 16; rules for investigating cases of, 27 ; evidence of, in the living, 10 ; sudden death resembling, 19; disease mis- taken for, 15; chronic, 19 ; evidence in the dead, 20 ; ul- ceration, corrosion, and soften- ing in, 23 ; perforation, 24 ; infanticide by, 443. Poisonous and non-poisonous sub- stances, 2. Poisonous food, 135. Poisonous gases, 684. Poppies, syrup and decoction of, 144. Pork, poisoning by, 137- Possessio fratris, 501. Posthumous births, 512; chil- dren, 543. Post-mortem appearances, evi- dence from, in poisoning, 20; births, 505. Potash and its carbonates, poison- ing by, 53 ; analysis, 54; bin- oxalate of, 51 ; arseuite of, 80; bichromate of, 124; ar- seniate of, 82. Potassium, cyanide of, 64. Praslin, Duke de, case of, 65, 200, 250. Precipitate, white and red, 96, 97. Pregnancy, signs of, 450; feigned, 456 ; plea of, in bar of execution, 458 ; concealment of, 461; in a state of unconscious- ness, 462; in the dead, 462 ; plea of, 458 ; proof of, in cases of abortion, 493 ; extra-uterine, 495 ; longest duration of, 528 ; earliest age for, 565 ; latest, 568 ; following rape, 588; crimes perpetrated during, 785. Premature births, 516; labour, induction of, 491. Preserving articles for analysis,33. Price, case of, 787. Procreative power, age for, 558, 564. Projectiles, whether fired near or at a distance, 321 ; evidence from, 795 ; deflection of, 324 ; chemical examination of, 795. Protracted births, 525 ; gestation, 526. Prussic Acid, varieties of, 151; symptoms caused by, 152; post-mortem appearances, 154; taste and odour of, 152 ; fatal doses of, 156 ; acts of volition and locomotion, 154 ; analysis, 158 ; detection of vapour in organic liquids. 160; obtained from seeds, 163. Ptyalism, mercurial (see Saliva- tion), 87. Puberty in males, 558; in fe- males, 564; premature, 565. Puerperal mania, 782. Pulmonary tests, 369. Putrefaction, effects of, 208; ute- rine, 355 ; of the lungs, 378 ; in the new-born child, 409 ; in the drowned, 607. Pyromania, 783. Quickening a sign of pregnancy. 452. Quicksilver, 85. (See Mercury.)