Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 2 (of 3)
by J. S. M. Fonblanque John Ayrton Paris
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Chapters (555)
- MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
- Medical Jurisprudence. PART III continued.
- 3. OF HOMICIDE GENERALLY.
- OF REAL AND APPARENT DEATH.
- OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSES, AND PHŒNOMENA OF SUDDEN DEATH.
- SYNCOPE: In which the pulsations of the heart cease, before the action of the respiratory organs.
- SUFFOCATION.
- 2. BY HANGING:
- 3. BY MANUAL STRANGULATION.
- 4. BY SMOTHERING.
- 5. BY THE INHALATION OF AIR DEPRIVED OF OXYGEN.
- 6. BY OTHER MODES, NOT INCLUDED IN THE FOREGOING SECTIONS.
- 8. DEATH BY EXPOSURE TO COLD.
- DEATH BY THE AGENCY OF HEAT.
- DEATH BY LIGHTNING.
- DEATH BY STARVATION.
- THE APPLICATION OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTS ESTABLISHED IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS, TO THE GENERAL TREATMENT OF ASPHYXIA.
- On the manner of producing artificial respiration.
- Application of Heat.
- TREATMENT OF PARTICULAR CASES OF ASPHYXIA.
- CASE I. Wherein the action of the heart fails before that of the respiratory organs.
- CASE II. Wherein the function of respiration ceases, while the heart continues to circulate black blood.
- OF THE CORONER’s INQUEST.
- SUICIDE.
- OF MURDER GENERALLY.
- “By imprisoning a man so strictly that he dies, and therefore where any dies in gaol[95] the coroner ought to be sent for to enquire of the manner of his death.”[96]
- OF POISONS, CHEMICALLY, PHYSIOLOGICALLY, AND PATHOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED.
- OF SLOW, CONSECUTIVE,[135] AND ACCUMULATIVE POISONING.
- GENERAL REMARKS ON THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE REQUIRED TO SUBSTANTIATE AN ACCUSATION OF POISONING.
- Q. 1. Whether all, or most of the symptoms, characteristic of the action of corrosive and narcotic poisons, may not arise from morbid causes of spontaneous origin?
- Q. II. Whether organic lesions, similar to those produced by poisoning, may not occasionally result from natural causes?
- Q. 3. Whether the rapid progress of putrefaction, in the body, generally, or in any particular part, is to be considered as affording presumptive evidence, in support of an accusation of poisoning?
- Q. IV. How far the absence of poison, or the inability of the chemist to detect it, in the body, or in the fluids ejected from it, is to be received as a negative to an accusation of poisoning?
- Q. V. What degree of information can be derived from administering the contents of the stomach of a person supposed to have been poisoned, to dogs, or other animals?
- ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF POISONS.
- A CLASSIFICATION OF THE DIFFERENT MODES BY WHICH POISONS PRODUCE THEIR EFFECTS.
- MINERAL POISONS.
- Cl. 1. CORROSIVE POISONS.
- ARSENIC.
- Mercury.
- Antimony.
- Copper.
- Tin and its Muriate.
- Zinc.
- Silver.
- The Concentrated Acids.
- Boiling Water.
- Melted Lead.
- The Caustic Alkalies.
- The Caustic Alkaline Earths.
- Cantharides. Spanish Flies—Blistering Flies. (Cantharis Vesicatoria, Sp. 1, of Latreille.)[337]
- Phosphorus.
- Mechanical Poisons—Powdered glass—Enamel powder—Chopped hair, &c. &c.
- CL. II. ASTRINGENT POISONS.
- Lead.
- Sugar of Lead—Saccharum Saturni—Cerussa Acetata—Plumbi Super-acetas.
- Goulard’s Extract. Liquor Plumbi Sub-acetatis.
- White Lead. Sub-Carbonate of Lead. Cerusse.
- Litharge. Semi-vitrified Oxide of Lead.
- Red Lead. Minium.
- VEGETABLE POISONS.
- Cl. III. ACRID, or RUBEFACIENT POISONS.
- Camboge or Gamboge.
- White Hellebore.[402] Veratrum Album. (Polygamia—Monæcia—Nat. Ord. Coronariæ. Linn.—Junci. Juss.)
- Black Hellebore. Melampodium. Christmas-rose. (Polyandria Polygynia. Nat. Ord. Multisiliquæ, Linn. Ranunculaceæ, Juss.)
- Fœtid Hellebore. Helleborus Fœtidus. Helleboraster.
- Elaterium. Wild, or squirting Cucumber. Momordica Elaterium (Monæcia Monadelphia. Nat. Ord. Cucurbitaceæ.)
- Colocynth. Coloquintida; Bitter Apple.
- Euphorbium. Euphorbia Officinarum (Dodecandria Trigynia. Nat. Ord. Tricoccæ Lin. Euphorbiæ Juss.)
- Savine. Juniperus Sabina. (Diæcia Monadelphia—Nat. Ord. Coniferæ.)
- Aconite. Monkshood. Aconitum Napellus (Polyandria Trigynia—Nat. Ord. Multisiliquæ, Linn. Ranunculaceæ, Juss.)
- Nitre. Nitrate of Potass.
- Cl. IV. NARCOTIC POISONS.
- Opium, and its Preparations.
- Black Henbane. Hyoscyamus Niger. (Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Luridæ Linn. Solaneæ Juss.)
- Prussic Acid. Hydro-cyanic Acid.
- Cl. V. NARCOTICO-ACRID POISONS.
- Deadly Nightshade. Atropa Belladonna. (Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Luridæ Linn. Solanaceæ. Juss.)
- Stramonium. Thorn-Apple. James-town Weed. Datura Stramonium (Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Solanaceæ, Linn. Solaneæ, Juss.)
- Tobacco. Nicotiana Tabacum. (Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Luridæ, Lin. Solaneæ, Juss.)
- Hemlock. Cicuta.[453] Conium[454] Maculatum (Pentandria Digynia. Nat. Ord. Umbellatæ.)
- Nux Vomica. This is the seed of the Strychnus Nux Vomica (Pentandria Monogynia, Nat. Ord. Apocyneæ, Juss.)
- Cocculus Indicus.
- Poisonous Mushrooms.
- Alcohol.
- ANIMAL POISONS.
- Cl. IV. SEPTIC POISONS.
- The Bites of Venomous Animals.
- Putrescent Animal Matter.
- Poisonous Fishes.
- AERIAL POISONS.
- OF HOMICIDE BY MISADVENTURE OR ACCIDENT.
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