PART I. Forensic Medicine

FORENSIC MEDICINE

PAGE

I. Crimes 1 II. Medical Evidence 2 III. Personal Identity 10 IV. Examination of Persons found Dead 12 V. Modes of Sudden Death 13 VI. Signs of Death 16 VII. Death from Anaesthetics, etc. 19 VIII. Presumption of Death; Survivorship 20 IX. Assaults, Murder, Manslaughter, etc. 21 X. Wounds and Mechanical Injuries 21 XI. Contused Wounds, etc. 22 XII. Incised Wounds 23 XIII. Gunshot Wounds 24 XIV. Wounds of Various Parts of the Body 26 XV. Detection of Blood-Stains, etc. 30 XVI. Death by Suffocation 34 XVII. Death by Hanging 35 XVIII. Death by Strangulation 35 XIX. Death by Drowning 36 XX. Death from Starvation 38 XXI. Death from Lightning and Electricity 38 XXII. Death from Cold or Heat 39 XXIII. Pregnancy 40 XXIV. Delivery 41 XXV. Foeticide or Criminal Abortion 42 XXVI. Infanticide 44 XXVII. Evidences of Live-Birth 46 XXVIII. Cause of Death in the Foetus 50 XXIX. Duration of Pregnancy 50 XXX. Viability of Children 51 XXXI. Legitimacy 52 XXXII. Superfoetation 53 XXXIII. Inheritance 54 XXXIV. Impotence and Sterility 54 XXXV. Rape 55 XXXVI. Unnatural Offences 59 XXXVII. Blackmailing 60 XXXVIII. Marriage and Divorce 60 XXXIX. Feigned Diseases 63 XL. Mental Unsoundness 67 XLI. Idiocy, Imbecility, Cretinism 68 XLII. Dementia 70 XLIII. Mania, Lucid Intervals, Undue Influence, Responsibility, etc. 71 XLIV. Examination of Persons of Unsound Mind 76 XLV. Inebriates Acts 78