Syllabus of the university course of lectures on medical jurisprudence / by Robert Christison.

Date:
1826
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    CHAPTER VI. OP DEATH BY COLD. Local efiFects of cold ; frostbite. Constitutional or ge- neral effects. Symptoms and manner of death. Varieties in the effects of cold according to collateral circumstances; when combined with exposure to wet; with ascent into the higher regions of the atmosphere. Appearances in the dead body. CHAPTER VH. OF DEATH BY LIGHTNING. Manner of death : local effects of lightning. Does the electric fluid pass along the skin, or through the internal parts of the body ? Probably sometimes one way and some- times the other; proofs that it passes through thd inter- nal parts. Varieties of the effects of electricity.; death by lightning without thunder. Appearances in the body; of two kinds, probably depending on the transmission or non-transmission of the shock through the body. CHAPTER Vni. OP DEATH BY HUNGER. Symptoms of starvation in its several degrees and stages; general symptoms ; varieties according as the deprivation of food is complete or incomplete, according to varieties of constitution; appearances in the body. Voluntary death by starvation; extraordinary examples in persons not insane; forcible starvation; trial from Fodere; trial in the case of Elizabeth Canning.