A manual of medical jurisprudence, compiled from the best medical and legal works : comprising, an account of I. The ethics of the medical profession, II. The charters and statutes relating to the faculty, and III. All medico-legal questions, with the latest decisions : being an analysis of a course of lectures on forensic medicine, annually delivered in London, and intended as a compendium for the use of barristers, solicitors, magistrates, coroners, and medical practitioners / by Michael Ryan.

  • Ryan, Michael, 1800-1840.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A manual of medical jurisprudence, compiled from the best medical and legal works : comprising, an account of I. The ethics of the medical profession, II. The charters and statutes relating to the faculty, and III. All medico-legal questions, with the latest decisions : being an analysis of a course of lectures on forensic medicine, annually delivered in London, and intended as a compendium for the use of barristers, solicitors, magistrates, coroners, and medical practitioners / by Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    luxations, fractures, bums, gun-shot wounds, 194,—classification of wounds—1, dangerous, and mortal, 196,—wounds of head, 196,—face, 197,—eye, contusions and fractures of the cranium, nose, bones of the face,—wounds of the neck affecting arteries, nerves, &c 198,—of the chest, dislocations and fractures of the clavicle or collar-bone, sternum or breast-bone of the ribs, ver- tebrae or bones of the spine or back, 199,—wounds of the abdomen, including contusion, concussion, rupture of subjacent organs causing haemorrhage or death, wounds of the parietes of the ab- domen or belly, stomach, liver, intestines, spleen, kidneys, bladder, uterus, thoracic duct, 200,—genital organs of the male and female from surgical or obstetric operations, 201,—contusions, dislocations, fractures, laceration of blood vessels, and danger of all injuries of the superior and inferior extremities, 201,—judi- ciary examination of wounds, 202,—examination, of the organic state of the wound, of the state of the constitution and habit of body, of the personal conduct of the patient and at- tendants, which may convert a slight into a mortal wound, of the salubrity of situation, state of the weather, whether the medical treatment is scientific,—danger of erroneous practice, 203,— mode of making the autopsy or post mortem examination, before and after putrefaction has begun, 104,—use of disinfecting measures in other cases,—examination of head, chest, and abdomen in all cases, even when body is mutilated internally —memoranda of morbid appearances, in as plain language as possible—distinction of wounds inflicted before and after death, 206,—whether death is the effect of suicide or homi- cide - 207 CHAPTER. XIV. HOMICIDE BY ASPHYXIA. Physiological explanation of the effects of suspension, of respiration, or breathing; by submersion or drowning, 209 —autopsic ap- pearances, whether the act comes of suicide or homicide, 210, asphyxia by strangulation, suspension or hanging, morbid ap- pearances, whether voluntary or criminal, 211,—asphyxia by suffocation, or the introduction of a foreign body into the fauces or throat, which prevents respiration, as in infanticide, &c, 213,—asphyxia by non-resfirable gases, as nitrogen, hydro- gen protoxide of nitrogen, carbonic acid, carbonated hydrogen oxide of carbon, vapour of ignited charcoal, deleterious gases! as sulphuretted hydrogen, nitrous acid gas, gas evolved in privies ammoniacal gas, chlorine, and hydrochloric acid gas—details of cases of death produced by each, with symptoms and autopsies, or morbid appearances, 214,—homicide by combustion, whether accidental, spontaneous or criminal, 217—homicide by star- vation, hunger or inanition 2lg