Forensic medicine and toxicology : A comprehensive work on medical jurisprudence / By W. Bathurst Woodman and Charles Meymott Tidy, with eight full-page lithographic plates and one hundred and fifteen other illustrations.

  • Woodman, W. Bathurst (William Bathurst), 1836-1877.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Forensic medicine and toxicology : A comprehensive work on medical jurisprudence / By W. Bathurst Woodman and Charles Meymott Tidy, with eight full-page lithographic plates and one hundred and fifteen other illustrations. 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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    CHAPTERX V. Alcohol—A my lie and M ethyl ie Alcohols—Nitrate of Amtl—Amy- lene — Benzol — Nitrobenzol — Anilin — Carbolic Acid—Bi- sulphide of Carbon—Chloral and Bromal—Chloroform— Ether—Creasote—Bichloride of Methylene—Nitroglycerin— Turpentine, . . . . . . . . . 434-465 CHAPTER XVI. ANIMAL POISONS. Cantharides—Cantharidin—Poisonous Food—Trichina Spiralis— Cysticercus—Measly Pork, etc—Flukes—Characters of Good and Bad Meat—Poisonous Fish, 465-477 CHAPTER XVII. POISONOUS GASES. Carbonic Acid—Carbonic Oxide—Coal-gas—Nitrous Oxide—Pbos- j.huretted and Seleniuretted Hydrogen—Sulphuretted Hydrogen —Sulphurous Acid, 478-496 CHAPTER XVIII. Compound Poisoning, 496-497 CHAPTER XIX. Hairs—Linen—Cotton and Woollen Fibres—Seminal Stains—Sper- matozoa— Bloodstains — Things which resemble Bloodstains— Spectroscopic Tests for Blood—Old Bloodstains—Blood in Urine—Blood-corpuscles—Measurement of Blood disks—Micro- scopic Examination of Bloodstains—Blood-crystals—Day's Test with Guaiacum—Teichmann's Test, 497-528 CHAPTER XX. Life Insurance—The Normal Man—Tables of Expectation of Life—Presumption of Survivorship—How to examine Lives —Height and Weight at Different Ages—Cases of Disputed Policies—Modes of Death—Sudden Death, .... 529-557 CHAPTER XXI. Limits of Distinct Vision—Audible Sounds—Personal Identity in the Dead and Living—Male and Female Pelvis—Development of Fcetus—Measurements of Skeletons, etc.—Identity from the Handwriting—Sympathetic Inks—Footprints, . . 557 -587 CHAPTER XXII. Monsters— Hermaphrodites — Sexual incapacity — Impotence and Sterility—Unnatural Crimes—Sodomy and Paederasty, 587-602