The student's hand-book of forensic medicine and medical police / by H. Aubrey Husband.

  • Husband, H. Aubrey (Henry Aubrey)
Date:
1883
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Credit: The student's hand-book of forensic medicine and medical police / by H. Aubrey Husband. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tailors work sitting with the legs crossed, and the body bent forward. The body is thus cramped, and the abdomen drawn in, and the thorax projects over it, due to the manner of sitting. They frequently have a soft red tumour on the external malleolus. A like tumour, but not so large, may also be found on the external edge of the foot, and a corn on the little toe. Photographers have their fingers blackened by nitrate of silver, or stained yellow with bichromate of potash. Seamstresses have the index finger of the left hand roughened, by the constant pricking of the needle. Copyists have on the little finger of the right hand, near its extremity, a corn, and at the end of the middle finger, a hard groove made by the pen. Violinists have corns on the tips of the lingers of the left hand. In smokers of pipes, the incisors and canines are more or less worn by the mouthpiece, but sometimes the groove is between the latter and bicuspids. In cigarette smokers, the forefinger and thumb are stained with tobacco juice. In coachmen, corns may be formed between the thumb and index finger, and between the index and the second finger of the left hand, from the pressure of the reins, and between the thumb and index finger of the right hand, from the pressure of the whip. In stone-masons, from the constant action of picking up the bricks, flattening of the tip of the thumb and index finger of left hand is not uncommon. The finger-ends of turners and coppersmiths are also more or less flattened ; in the latter a deposit of the metal may take place. An examination of the mouth, for the presence or absence of false teeth, or of any peculiar formation of the jaw, may lead to the identification of the body. In the case of Dr Parkman, the recognition, by a