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

Date:
1879
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The student's handbook of forensic medicine and medical police / by H. Aubrey Husband. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    the purpose, the latter portion is written in the plural, and signed by each of the parties certifying. The following is an outline of a medical report, which may be more or less modified to suit the requirements of the case :— FoEM OF Medical Eeport. Date. Place of Examination. Names of those lolio can speaJf to the identity of the hodij. A. Minute of the Examination. 1. External Insjpection. a. General condition of the body. 1. Well or ill jiourished. 2. General colour. 3. Marks and scars. 4. Products of disease—idcers, hernia, etc. 5. Injuries. Caution.—There may he no external marks of injury, and yet death may he due to violence. Exti 'erne difficulty in deciding if injury he inflicted hefore or after death. h. Height. Determined hy measurement. c. Age. This can only he apjproximately guessed. d. Sex. Tliis is, of course, only difficult when putrefac- tion is far advanced. Hair found only on the MONS VENERIS or PDBBS is characteristic of the female, hut if it extend upwards on