Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

An instructional handbook that systematically presents medico-legal principles and practical procedures for courts and clinicians, beginning with legal definitions of crimes, duties of expert witnesses, and methods for establishing identity and cause of death. It surveys modes and signs of sudden and non-accidental death, patterns of wounds and asphyxia, reproductive and infantile forensic issues, and assessment of mental incapacity. A second, detailed section treats toxicology: classification of poisons, clinical and post-mortem symptoms, analytical detection methods, and general treatment and legal considerations for common chemical and plant toxins.