Medical jurisprudence / by Alfred S. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Medical jurisprudence / by Alfred S. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANIMAL IRRITANTS. CHAPTER XVI. Canthai'ides or Spanish fly—Symptoms and effects — Analysis. Poisonous food—Fish—Muscles—Salmon—Cheese—Sausages—Diseased flesh of ani- mals 13G NARCOTIC POISONS. CHAPTER XVII. Opium—Symptoms—Period of commencement—Post-mortem appearances— Quantity required to destroy life—Death from small, and recovery from large doses—Its action on infants—Period at which death takes place—Treat- ment—Recoveries—Poisoning by poppies—Godfrey's cordial—Dalby's car- minative—Paregoric elixir—Dover's powder—Morphia and its salts—Black drop—Sedative solution—Effects of external application—Tests for morphia and meconic acid—Process for detecting opium in organic mixtures 143 CHAPTER XVIII. Prussic acid—Difference in strength—Taste and odor—Conditions under which the odor may and may not be detected—Symptoms produced by small and large doses—its effects contrasted with those of opium—Period at which the symptoms commence—Power of volition and locomotion—Cases—Quantity required to destroy life—Fatal dose—Period at which death takes place— Treatment. Tests for the acid—Vapor-tests—Process for organic mixtures. Bitter almonds. Noyau. Cyanide of potassium 153 CHAPTER XIX. Narcotic poisons continued—Hyoscyamus niger. Lactuca virosa and sativa— Lettuce-opium—Solanum dulcamara and nigrum—Camphor—Symptoms— Alcohol—Symptoms—Treatment—Analysis—Action of ether as a liquid— Symptoms and appearances 165 NARCOTICO-IRRITANT POISONS. CHAPTER XX. General remarks—Analysis—Treatment—Nux vomica—Strychnia—Colchi- cum—White hellebore—Digitalis—Conium maculatum—Datura stramonium —Aconite—Deadly nightshade—Tobacco—Cocculus indicus—Laburnum— Mushrooms—Yew 170 WOUNDS. CHAPTER XXI. Various surgical definitions of a wound—Injury to the skin—Legal definition An abrasion of the cuticle not a wound—Implies immediate and not re- mote laceration of the skin—Is a dislocation a wound?—Wounds dangerous t0 life—The danger imminent—Wounds producing grievous bodily harm. Intent of the accused, a question for the jury—Dying declarations—Circum- stances under which they are admitted in evidence—Rules to be observed by the medical witness in receiving them—Mistaken identity in injuries of the head 183 CHAPTER XXII. Examination of wounds in the dead body—All the cavities should be inspect- ed Acquittals from the neglect of this rule—Characters of a wound inflicted during life of a wound made after death—Experiments on amputated limbs Caution in medical opinions—Wounds or injuries unattended by hemorrhage Ecchymosis from violence—Evidence from ecchymosis—Ecchymosis from natural causes—in the dead body—Lividity—Vibices—Effects of putrefac- tion—Is ecchymosis a necessary result of violence? 188