A Text-book of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology

Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology for India covers some essential details and practical aspects of medical jurisprudence and toxicology. This book is organized into two part encompassing 34 chapters. The opening chapters of Part I deal with legal procedure in criminal courts, physical evidence of the crime, autopsy, exhumation, and some medico-legal practices. Considerable chapters are devoted to other aspects of legal medicine, including determination of death causation, legitimacy of evidence, incident of rape and unnatural offenses, miscarriage, infanticide, insanity, and the privileges of medical men. Part II focuses on the toxicological aspects. This part emphasizes the medico-legal aspects of some classes of poisons, such as corrosive, irritant, neurotic, cerebral, spinal, cardiac, and peripheral poisons. This book will prove useful to medical college students. Content: Inside Front Cover , Page ifc1 Front Matter , Page ifc2 INTRODUCTION , Page ifc3 PREFACE , Pages i-ii CHAPTER I - LEGAL PROCEDURE IN CRIMINAL COURTS , Pages 1-18 CHAPTER II - PERSONAL IDENTITY , Pages 19-45 CHAPTER III - POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION (AUTOPSY) , Pages 46-60 CHAPTER IV - EXHUMATION , Pages 61-64 CHAPTER V - EXAMINATION OF BLOOD AND SEMINAL STAINS, AND OF HAIR , Pages 65-82 CHAPTER VI - DEATH IN ITS MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECT , Pages 83-118 CHAPTER VII - DEATHS FROM ASPHYXIA , Pages 119-143 CHAPTER VIII - DEATH FROM STARVATION, COLD AND HEAT , Pages 144-151 CHAPTER IX - DEATH FROM BURNS, SCALDS, LIGHTNING, AND ELECTRICITY , Pages 152-163 CHAPTER X - MECHANICAL INJURIES , Pages 164-173 CHAPTER XI - THE MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECT OF WOUNDS , Pages 174-188 CHAPTER XII - REGIONAL INJURIES , Pages 189-212 CHAPTER XIII - IMPOTENCE AND STERILITY , Pages 213-217 CHAPTER XIV - VIRGINITY, PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY , Pages 218-231 CHAPTER XV - LEGITIMACY , Pages 232-236 CHAPTER XVI - RAPE AND UNNATURAL OFFENCES , Pages 237-250 CHAPTER XVII - MISCARRIAGE AND FŒTICIDE , Pages 251-265 CHAPTER XVIII - INFANTICIDE , Pages 266-287 CHAPTER XIX - INSANITY AND ITS MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECT , Pages 288-315 CHAPTER XX - LIFE ASSURANCE , Pages 316-324 CHAPTER XXI - LAW IN RELATION TO MEDICAL MEN , Pages 325-334 CHAPTER XXII - POISONS AND THEIR MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECT , Pages 335-363 CHAPTER XXIII - CORROSIVE POISONS , Pages 364-387 CHAPTER XXIV - IRRITANT POISONS , Pages 388-398 CHAPTER XXV - IRRITANT POISONS, Contd. , Pages 399-458 CHAPTER XXVI - IRRITANT POISONS, ( Continued ) , Pages 459-477 CHAPTER XXVII - IRRITANT POISONS— Continued , Pages 478-489 CHAPTER XXVIII - IRRITANT POISONS—( Continued ) , Pages 490-492 CHAPTER XXIX - NEUROTIC POISONS , Pages 493-503 CHAPTER XXX - CEREBRAL POISONS—( Continued ) , Pages 504-527 CHAPTER XXXI - CEREBRAL POISONS— Continued , Pages 528-543 CHAPTER XXXII - SPINAL POISONS , Pages 544-551 CHAPTER XXXIII - CARDIAC POISONS , Pages 552-566 CHAPTER XXXIV - ASPHYXIANTS (IRRESPIRABLE GASES) , Pages 567-572 CHAPTER XXXV - PERIPHERAL (NEURAL) POISONS , Pages 573-575 APPENDIX I - ORDERS PERTAINING TO MEDICO-LEGAL WORK , Pages i-vi APPENDIX II - SPECIAL RULES OF EVIDENCE , Pages vii-ix APPENDIX III - QUESTIONS TO BE PUT TO MEDICAL WITNESSES , Pages x-xix APPENDIX IV - FORMS FOR MEDICO-LEGAL REPORTS , Pages xx-xxx APPENDIX V - RULES FOR TRANSMISSION OF SUBSTANCES FOR ANALYSIS TO THE CHEMICAL EXAMINER AND GOVERNMENT ANALYST, UNITED PROVINCES, AND TO THE IMPERIAL SEROLOGIST TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, CALCUTTA , Pages xxxi-xl APPENDIX VI - STATEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF MEDICO-LEGAL ENQUIRY IN INDIA AS COMPARED WITH SUCH ENQUIRY IN ENGLAND , Pages xli-xliv APPENDIX VII - INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT , Pages xlv-l APPENDIX VIII - THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE , Pages li-lxvii APPENDIX IX - THE INDIAN PENAL CODE , Pages lxviii-lxxxv APPENDIX X - FORMS REQUIRED BY THE INDIAN LUNACY ACT, 1912 , Pages lxxxvi-lxxxviii APPENDIX XI - THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH AND THE VEDIC PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE , Pages lxxxix-xci APPENDIX XII - THE POISONS ACT (ACT NO. 1.), 1904 , Pages xcii-c APPENDIX XIII - BOOKS OF REFERENCE , Pages ci-cii INDEX , Pages ciii-cxxx