A Text-book of legal medicine and toxicology v. 1, 1903, Volume 1W.B. Saunders & Company, 1903 |
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... determine them . Sometimes only a skilled pathologist , neurologist , alienist , obstetrician , surgeon , or chemist is able to unravel the intricate problem . The domain of scientific medicine has expanded so widely of late years that ...
... determine them . Sometimes only a skilled pathologist , neurologist , alienist , obstetrician , surgeon , or chemist is able to unravel the intricate problem . The domain of scientific medicine has expanded so widely of late years that ...
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... determine the choice without political or social influence . It is possible that a committee of unbiased physicians appointed from a reputable medical society could establish a list of specialists qualified for court duties , but there ...
... determine the choice without political or social influence . It is possible that a committee of unbiased physicians appointed from a reputable medical society could establish a list of specialists qualified for court duties , but there ...
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... determine , as far as possible in the power of medical science , the cause and the kind of death . In order that all ... determined and made clear to the administrators of the law . Hence a postmortem examination for legal purposes must ...
... determine , as far as possible in the power of medical science , the cause and the kind of death . In order that all ... determined and made clear to the administrators of the law . Hence a postmortem examination for legal purposes must ...
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... determines the height , sex , approximate age , color and state of the skin in general , stature , state of general ... determined . The body length is measured by means of a tape or anthropologic measure placed upon the table by the ...
... determines the height , sex , approximate age , color and state of the skin in general , stature , state of general ... determined . The body length is measured by means of a tape or anthropologic measure placed upon the table by the ...
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... determine the identity . In the case of greatly decomposed bodies , an effort should first be made , when necessary , to determine the sex by finding perhaps distinct remains of the uterus , which is one of the last structures to ...
... determine the identity . In the case of greatly decomposed bodies , an effort should first be made , when necessary , to determine the sex by finding perhaps distinct remains of the uterus , which is one of the last structures to ...
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accident adipocere alcohol anesthesia answer aphasia appearance application asphyxia associated become blood body bone brain bullet burning cause cavity cerebral character chronic cicatrix color concussion condition contract Court degree delirium delusions dementia depression dipsomania disease disorders ecchymoses effects epilepsy especially evidence examination excitement existence fact fatal fluid form of insanity fracture frequently hand heart held hemorrhage hyperesthesia hysteria hysteric idiocy idiots important incision individual influence injury insured lesions less ligature lungs mania marked matter medicolegal melancholia membrane mental motor mucous membrane muscles muscular Mutual neck nervous system neurasthenia neuroses normal observed occur organs pain paralysis paretic patient person physical physician postmortem present probably produced putrefaction question regard respiratory result rigor mortis rupture scars sexual shock simulation skin skull slight spinal cord suicide surface symptoms syphilis temperature tion tissue trachea traumatic usually vertebræ vessels viscera warranty weapon wound
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Page 540 - But whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive or intent is a necessary element to constitute a particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time, in determining the purpose, motive or intent with which he committed the act.
Page 440 - in all suits upon policies of insurance on life hereafter issued by any company doing business in this State, to a citizen of this State, it shall be no defense that the insured committed suicide, unless it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the court or jury trying the cause, that the insured contemplated suicide at the time he made his application for the policy, and any stipulation in the policy to the...
Page 7 - This work presents to the medical and legal professions a comprehensive survey of forensic medicine and toxicology in moderate compass. For convenience of reference the treatise has been divided into two sections, Part I and Part II, the latter being devoted to Toxicology and all other portions of Legal Medicine in which laboratory investigation is an essential feature. Under "Expert Evidence...
Page 445 - If the assured, being in the possession of his ordinary reasoning faculties, from anger, pride, jealousy or a desire to escape from the ills of life, intentionally takes his own life, the proviso attaches, and there can be no recovery. If the death is caused by the voluntary Opinion of the Court.