SECTION I. Forensic Medicine

FORENSIC MEDICINE CHAP. PAGE Introduction 1 I. Legal Criminal Procedure 2 II. Medical Evidence Generally, Identity 11 III. Modes of Dying, Sudden Death, Signs of Death 38 IV. Post-mortem Examinations and Exhumations, Instructions of the Crown Office in Scotland 56 V. Assaults, Homicide, and Wounds 68 VI. Blood Stains, Spectra, and Biological Tests 89 VII. Burns and Scalds, Contusions and Bruises 110 VIII. Suffocation, Hanging, Strangling, and Throttling 118 IX. Drowning 127 X. Death from Starvation, Cold and Heat, Lightning and Electricity 132 XI. Offences against Chastity 140 XII. Pregnancy and Delivery 150 XIII. Fœticide, or Criminal Abortion 159 XIV. Infanticide, Live Birth, Cause of Death to the Fœtus 165 XV. Inheritance, Legitimacy, Impotence and Sterility, Survivorship, Malpraxis and Neglect of Duty, Feigned Diseases, Exemption from Public Duties, Wills 184 XVI. Mental unsoundness, General Symptoms of Insanity, Mania, Melancholia, Dementia, Restraint of the Insane, Forms of Medical Certificates, Testamentary Capacity 192