Principles and practice of medical jurisprudence / by Alfred Swaine Taylor.

  • Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880.
Date:
1883
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    CHAPTER 58. Gaseous poisons—Cause of death mistaken—Carbonic acid—Mode of action -Symp- toms—Appearances—Analysis—Charcoal-vapour—Its effects—Carbonic oxide— Coal and coko vapour—-Sulphurous acid—Vapour of lime, cement, and brick-kilns —Confined air—Coal-gas—Carburetted hydrogen—Nitrous oxide—Its anaesthetic effects . . . . . . . pages 96—118 CHAPTER 59. Sulphuretted hydrogen gas—Its poisonous properties—Symptoms—Post-mortem ap- pearances—Effluvia of drains and sewers—Analysis—Mephitic Vapours—Exhala- tions from the dead . . . . . . . pages 118—126 LIGHTNING. COLD. HEAT. STARVATION. CHAPTER 60. Lightning —Effects of electricity—Cause of death—Post-mortem appearances—Cases —Legal relations—Cold an occasional cause of death—Symptoms—Circumstances which accelerate death—Post-mortem appearances—Case of murder by cold—Effect of Heat—Sunstroke—Starvation a rare canso of death—Symptoms—Appearances after death—Legal relations ..... pages 126—145 OBSTETRIC JURISPE UDENCE. PKEGNANCT. CHAPTER 61. Signs of pregnancy—Suppression of the menses—Prominence of the abdomen- Changes in the breasts—Quickening—Sounds of the foetal heart—Changes in the mouth and neck of the uterus—Feigned pregnancy—De ventre inspiciendo—Plea of pregnancy in bar of execution—The jury of matrons—Concealment of pregnancy —Pregnancy in the dead—Impregnation in a state of unconsciousness pages 146—158 DELIVERY. CHAPTER 62. Delivery in the living—Concealed delivery—Abortion in the early stages of pregnancy —The signs speedily disappear—Signs of recent delivery in advanced pregnancy- Signs of delivery at a remote period—Feigned delivery—Delivery in a state of unconsciousness—Circumstances under which this may occur—Admission of the plea in cases of alleged child-murder—Signs of delivery in the dead—True and false corpora lutea—Fallacies to which they give rise—Characters of the ovum or embryo from the first to the sixth month . pages 158—175 CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH. CHAPTER 63. Concealmeni of bhe birth of a child—Definition of bhe offence—Women acquitted of infanticide found guilty of concealment—Medical evidence from the remains of the body—Analysis of bones—The child must bo dead—Concealment of the ovum or embryo—Not necessary bo prove when the ohild died . • pages 170—1/8