EXAMINATIONS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO MEDICO-LEGAL PRACTICE. BY PROFESSOR RUDOLPH VIRCHOW, OF THE BERLIN CHARITÉ HOSPITAL. TRANSLATED BY T. P. SMITH, M. D., MEMBER ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. THIRD AMERICAN FROM THE FOURTH GERMAN EDITION. WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES AND NEW PLATES. PHILADELPHIA: P. BLAKISTON, SON & CO.. ΙΟ Ι 2 WALNUT STREET. B J57 18135 1896 TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. IN the following paper Prof. Virchow gives some account of his early experience as Prosector in the dead-house of the Berlin Charité Hospital, and traces the subsequent development, under his auspices, of a systematic method of conducting post-mortem examinations. He also criticises, explains, and illustrates the regulations which have been promulgated throughout Germany for the guidance of medical jurists in performing autopsies and drawing up reports. (Regulativ für das Verfahren der Gerichtsärtzte bei den gerichtlichen Untersuchungen menschlicher Leichname. Herausgegeben von der Königl. wissenschaftlichen Deputation für das Medicinalwesen, 8, 1875.) He also gives three interesting cases in which the post-mortem examinations were performed by himself, the order of sequence enjoined by the regulations being closely adhered to. An examination of these cases will show that nothing has been omitted which could throw any possible light on the cause of death. 43510 |