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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 2 (of 3)

Chapter 2: Medical Jurisprudence. PART III continued.
By John Ayrton Paris
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The work examines principles and practice of forensic medicine and its application to legal inquiries into death and injury. It surveys physiological mechanisms of death, distinguishes real from apparent death, and analyzes sudden death, syncope, asphyxia, drowning, hanging, exposure, starvation, and effects of poisons. It offers practical guidance for external examination, dissection, and coroner’s inquests, outlines classifications of homicide, suicide, abortion, and infanticide, and discusses criminal responsibility, pleas, and punishments. Throughout, clinical and chemical evidence is linked to legal definitions and procedural recommendations to assist medical witnesses and legal authorities in investigating suspicious, violent, or unexplained deaths.

Medical Jurisprudence.
 
PART III continued.

3. Of Homicide generally.— 4. Of Real and Apparent Death.— 5. Of the Physiological Causes, and Phenomena of Sudden Death.— 6. Of Syncope.— 7. Of Suffocation, by Drowning, Hanging, and other causes.— 8. Death by exposure to Cold—Heat—Lightning—Starvation.— 9. Application of the Physiological Facts established in the preceding chapters, to the general treatment of Asphyxia.— 10. Of the Coroner’s Inquest.— 11. Suicide.— 12. Of Murder generally—by Wounding or Blows—by Poisoning.— 13. Of Poisons, Chemically, Physiologically, and Pathologically considered.— 14. Of Homicide, by Misadventure or Accident.—15. A Synopsis of the Objects of Inquiry in Cases of sudden and mysterious Sickness and Death,—Commentary thereon, including practical rules for Dissection.—16. Abortion and Infanticide—with Physiological Illustrations.—17. Of Criminal Responsibility, and Pleas in bar of Execution.—18. Of Punishments.—19. Postscript.