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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIII. A MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY. The subject of this closing chapter is the scope, purpose, and details of a medicolegal examination of the dead human body. We ask at the outset, How does a medicolegal autopsy differ from an ordinary post-mortem examination? It includes more. The ordinary pathological inspection has in view as its end, to verify a clinical diagnosis, to clear up clinical doubts and mysteries, to finish and complete clinical records. Generally a clue is at hand. Certain organs or regions are known to be diseased. The pathologist seeks to answer the question, Do the appearances at the autopsy table confirm and verify the observations at the bedside? Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: "Pathological anatomy teaches a great deal, but it is, after all, like inspecting what is left of the fireworks on the morning of the fifth of July." The autopsy for judicial purposes, however, has a much broader scope than to observe diseased organs or exploded anatomical fireworks. It includes many details which are quite superfluous in an ordinary examination, because its object is to search for evidence to serve the needs of justice. Matters ordinarily trivial become, in this relation, of manifest importance. This is especially true of the external aspect and environment of the dead body. It thus follows that a medicolegal examination calls for greater exhaustiveness, precision, and thoroughness than is demanded in cases of simple death from disease; or at least it calls for the exercise of these in novel directions. For, besides determining the cause of the death, the medical examiner strives to ascertain its manner also, the fundamental purpose being either (1) to aid in convicting a person of a crime committed, or (2) to eliminate from the cause ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150538090
- ISBN 13 9781150538094
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages230
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