brought to light another fact, namely, the great insecurity of life in this country owing to the perfunctory manner in which some medical men discharge an important duty in filling up certificates of the causes of death. (See vol. 1, p. 11.) With fully-marked symptoms of arsenical poisoning, these sudden and violent deaths were registered, one after the other, as gastric fever. The success of this criminal depended, first, on the facilities for insuring the lives of others in a low class of Insurance Offices, and, secondly, on the carelessness with which the causes of death were certified. INDEX. [The principal subjects are in capitals, the cases in italics.] signs of, in the living and dead, ii 195 Abortives, specific, ii 191 in reference to life insurance, ii 613 death in reference to life insurance, Acephalous monsters, ii 219 of copper, i 311 Acetic acid, i 233 hydrochloric, i 224 oxalic, i 225 tartaric, i 232 acetic, i 233 arsenious, i 256 arsenic, i 283 BAR Arsenic, period at which death occurs, i 262 analysis as a solid, i 263 Reinsch's process for, i 267, 274 detection of, in organic mixtures, i 269 in the tissues, by distillation-process, i detection of, after long periods, i 278 sulphides of, i 283 chloride of, i 285 Arsenic acid, i 283 Arsenious acid (see ARSENIC), i 256 Arsenites, alkaline, poisoning by, i 279 in paper-hangings, i 281 Arsenetted hydrogen, fatal effects of, i 285 Ashford, Mary, case of, ii 18 Asiatic cholera, mistaken for poisoning, i 192 heat of the body in death from, i 50 various forms of, ii 1 cause of death in, ii 1 restoration in cases of, ii 7 from mechanical causes, ii 82 Aspinall, case of, ii 140 Assessors, medical and scientific, i 36 Assizes, trial at the, i 17 Atavism in insanity, ii 493 Atchley v. Sprigg, ii 238, 268 Atelectasis of the lungs, ii 331 Atropa belladonna, i 420 Atropine, i 424 Auscultation in pregnancy, ii 150, 212 Baker, Reg. v., i 645 Baker v. Lowe, i 617 Ball, Weekly, case of, i 152 Ball, Hugh Swinton, case of, i 175 poisoning by chloride of, i 244 INDEX, 635 BAR Bath buns, poisoning of, i 283 Bearsfoot (Hellebore), i 342 Betts v. Clifford, case of, i 17 proofs of, in criminal law, ii 354 proof of, in civil law, ii 207 date of, in cases of child murder, ii 373 injuries to the child during, ii 424 Births, post-mortem, ii 165, 218 plural, ii 223 premature, ii 244, 334 protracted, ii 257 posthumous, ii 239, 272 Birtwistle v. Vardell, ii 238 Bishop and Williams, case of, ii 32, 93 BITTER ALMONDS, essential oil of, i 385 Bitter-sweet, effects of, i 420 Black hellebore, i 342 Blackmore, case of, ii 532 Bladder, ruptures of the, i 674 Blagg, Reg. v., i 543 Blandy, case of, i 196 Blasson v. Blasson, ii 205 Bleeding, death from (see HEMORRHAGE), cicatrices from, i 624 Blight, case of, i 5, 534 Blisters from burns and scalds, i 70 BLOOD, coagulation of, after death, i 63, 493 BOL Blood, state of the, in wounds, i 487 on weapons, i 535, 561 on clothing and furniture, i 545, 557 inference from quantity of, i 548 on the assailant, i 551 detection of, by guaiacum, i 566 detection of, by spectral analysis, i 568 marks of, in death from wounds, i 551 arterial and venous, i 564 evidence from spots of, i 555, 565 menstrual, i 566, ii 457 microscopical examination of, i 570, 574 human and animal, i 573 optical examination of, i 568 loss of, a cause of death, i 583 extravasation of, on the brain, i 641 in cases of abortion, ii 203 in the stomach of a new-born child, ii washed, examination of, i 560 animal, i 573 Blood-crystals, i 576 BLOOD-STAINS, chemical examination of, Blue pill, i 285 vitriol, i 310 rocket, i 458 Bocarme, Count de, case of, i 410 luminosity of the, i 96 preservation of the, i 97 destruction of the, by putrefaction, i 163 inflammable gases from the, i 111 rapid decomposition of the, i 111 specific gravity of the, ii 24 exhumation of the, i 205 position of the, in death from wounds, position of the, in death from hanging, ii 55 spontaneous combustion of the, i 123 fractures of the, i 157, 679 Bonino, case of, i 159 Books, quotations from, i 23 Born alive, signification of, in civil and criminal law, ii 204, 311 Boroughs, Reg. v., i 376 Borradaile v. Hunter, ii 484 Bouchardat's iodine test, i 373 Boughton, Sir T., case of, i 191 Boulton and Park, Reg. v., ii 459 Bourbon, Duke, case of, i 82, ii 55 Boyden, Reg. v., i 453 Bradford lozenge cases, i 284 Brain, locomotion after severe injury to the, i 628 extravasation of blood on the, i 640 membranes of the, i 650 structure of the, i 651 Brain, Rex v., ii 351 Branding, scars from, i 622 Bravo, Mr., case of, i 318 Breasts, changes of the, in pregnancy, ii 147 Brembridge v. Hoare, ii 605 Briggs, Mr., case of, i 503, 563 Bromwich v. Waters, ii 253, 450 Bullets, composition of, i 544 Buoyancy of the body, living and dead, ii 24 Buranelli, Reg. v., i 688, ii 569 Burgess, case of, i 637 Burial-club murders, ii 631 Burke, case of, i 440, ii 87, 93, 96 Burking, death from, ii 93 Burnett's fluid, poisoning by, i 326 their relation to wounds, i 479 CAR Burns and scalds, stupor from, i 706 on the living and dead body, i 709, 713 from petroleum, i 715 by corrosive liquids, i 716 Burnt animal matter, tests for, i 161 Burton, Reg. V., ii 546, 565, 568 Bury, case of, ii 306 Busby, case of, ii 155 Butler's vermin-killer, i 435 Butter of antimony, i 324 Butcher, Reg. v., i 603 Cadaveric alkaloids, i 472 in the drowned, i 66 Cæsarian extraction, ii 214 Cairns v. Marienski, ii 543 Calabar bean, i 414 Calcined bones, evidence from, i 161 Calder, Reg. v., ii 192 Calomel, salivation from small doses of, i 295 chemical analysis of, i 295 Campbell, case of, ii 87 Camphene, action of, i 344 Camphor, poisoning by, i 408 Canadian partridges, poisoning by, i 361 Capacity, testamentary, ii 526, 534 Capsicum, effects of, i 337 Carbolic acid, poisoning by, i 345 Carbon disulphide, i 388 Carbonates of potash and soda, i 234 of ammonia, i 239 of baryta, i 245 of lead, i 304 CARBONIC ACID, suffocation by, ii 97 symptoms caused by, ii 100 appearances in death from, ii 101 analysis, ii 102 alleged murder by, ii 97 combustion in mixtures of, ii 106 rapid diffusion of, ii 106 of lime and brick-kilns, ii 111 Carburetted hydrogen, suffocation by, ii 112 Carlo Ferrari, case of, ii 32, 95 |