The pathologist's handbook : a manual for the post-mortem room / by T.N. Kelynack.

  • Kelynack, T. N. (Theophilus Nicholas), 1866-1944.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The pathologist's handbook : a manual for the post-mortem room / by T.N. Kelynack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mortem examination, all bodies should be kept in a specially constructed cold chamber.* It may be well to add here that in cases where no such refrigerating appliance is avail- able, and it is necessary to preserve the body from putrefactive changes until consent for the examination can be obtained, the corpse should be closely surrounded by ice. Where it is desir- able to preserve the cord in a fit state for micro- scopical examination, and the autopsy cannot be undertaken speedily, the body may with ad- vantage be kept in the prone position and ice applied along the back. Use of Photography.—Photography is a valu- able means of permanently recording external characters, and in medico-legal work especially it may be of the greatest service. The Body and its Environment.—An external investigation can be divided into two parts: 1. Examination of the body. 2. Examination of its environment. In many cases there is no opportunity for thoroughly investigating the relation of the body to its surroundings, and friends or law officials not infrequently remove the body before the medical man is summoned. In large towns and cities cases found dead are usually * For illustrations and description of the refrigerating apparatus in use at the London Asylums Laboratory at Clay- bury, in Essex, see ' Brit. Med. Journ./ Feb. 18th, 1899.