A System of Legal Medicine, Volume 1E. B. Treat, 1894 - Medical jurisprudence |
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... symptoms . It is in this particular part of the brain , therefore , that the sections should be most numerous , perhaps even microscopic . It is recommended that the first sections be made from within the great lon- gitudinal fissure ...
... symptoms . It is in this particular part of the brain , therefore , that the sections should be most numerous , perhaps even microscopic . It is recommended that the first sections be made from within the great lon- gitudinal fissure ...
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... symptoms before death are said to be giddiness , nausea , loss of strength , and paralysis , then convulsions preceding coma and insensibility , or sometimes tetanus with delirium . The skin is cold , pulse feeble , and breathing ...
... symptoms before death are said to be giddiness , nausea , loss of strength , and paralysis , then convulsions preceding coma and insensibility , or sometimes tetanus with delirium . The skin is cold , pulse feeble , and breathing ...
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... symptoms , and the two injuries so placed that both could not be produced by the fall or by the blow . Suicides often make more than one wound , or may make an incised wound and then use a pistol , or jump into water or from a height ...
... symptoms , and the two injuries so placed that both could not be produced by the fall or by the blow . Suicides often make more than one wound , or may make an incised wound and then use a pistol , or jump into water or from a height ...
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... symptoms to appear has passed , and the wound is free from erysipelatous inflamma- tion or undue suppuration , to pronounce the man out of danger , espe- cially if pulse and temperature are normal . But the effects of the con- tusion ...
... symptoms to appear has passed , and the wound is free from erysipelatous inflamma- tion or undue suppuration , to pronounce the man out of danger , espe- cially if pulse and temperature are normal . But the effects of the con- tusion ...
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... symptoms of col- lapse appeared . The doctor was summoned , and in company with Dr. MacDonald , who had been called ... symptom of being mortally hurt until two hours before his death . On July 10 , 1878 , with suicidal intent , T. B. ...
... symptoms of col- lapse appeared . The doctor was summoned , and in company with Dr. MacDonald , who had been called ... symptom of being mortally hurt until two hours before his death . On July 10 , 1878 , with suicidal intent , T. B. ...
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Page 635 - A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity...
Page 512 - It is clear that a creditor has an insurable interest in the life of his debtor...
Page 604 - Published under the direction of the general council of medical education and registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the medical act (1858).
Page 577 - ... a question of fact to be decided by the verdict of a jury. If this is true in regard to ordinary claims under policies, it is obvious that the difficulty would be greatly enhanced in cases like the present, where it would be sufficient, in order to take a case out of the operation of the proviso, to prove that self-destruction was the result of insanity. It would not be hazardous to affirm that, in all cases where such an issue was to be determined by a jury between an insurance company and the...
Page 73 - The knee joint, formed between the articular surfaces of the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia, is largely a hinge joint.
Page 511 - It may be stated generally, however, to be such an interest, arising from the relations of the party obtaining the insurance, either as creditor of or surety for the assured, or from the ties of blood or marriage to him, as will justify a reasonable expectation of advantage or benefit from the continuance of his life.
Page 17 - Medicine, as it is variously termed, is that science which applies the principles and practice of the different branches of medicine to the elucidation of doubtful questions in courts of justice.
Page 501 - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Page 581 - Suicide involves the deliberate termination of one's existence, while in the possession and enjoyment of his mental faculties. Self-slaughter by an insane man or a lunatic is not an act of suicide within the meaning of the law.
Page 241 - How is it possible under such circumstances for any tribunal sitting judicially to say which of these two individuals died first? We may guess, or imagine, or fancy ; but the law of England requires evidence, and we are of opinion that there is no evidence upon which we can give a judicial opinion that either survived the other.