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 Medical Jurisprudence.

PART III.

Introduction—1. Of Arson—Human Combustion.—2. Of Rape, with Physiological and Medical Illustrations.—3. Of Homicide generally.—4. Of Real and Apparent Death.—5. Of the Physiological Causes, and Phenomena of Sudden Death.—6. Of Syncope.—7. Of Suffocation by Drowning, Hanging, and other causes.—8. Death by exposure to Cold—Heat—Lightning—Starvation.—9. Application of the Phyisological Facts, established in the preceding chapters, to the general treatment of Asphyxia.—10. Of the Coroner's Inquest.—11. Suicide.—12. Of Murder generally—by Wounding, or Blows—by Poisoning.—13. Of Poisons, Chemically, Physiologically, and Pathologically considered.—14. Of Homicide, by Misadventure or Accident.—15. A Synopsis of the Objects of Inquiry in Cases of sudden and mysterious Sickness and Death,—Commentary thereon, including practical rules for Dissection.—16. Abortion and Infanticide—with Physiological Illustrations.—17. Of Criminal Responsibility, and Pleas in bar of Execution.—18. Of Punishments.—19. Postscript.