A Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology, Sixth Edition discusses medico-legal points concerning the different causes of death, examination of evidence, and crimes that merit medical attention and advice. The author reviews the legal procedures in criminal courts of medical jurisprudence, including the inquest procedures, the difficulties encountered in detecting crime, medical evidence, rules for presenting evidence, and the powers of criminal courts. The post-mortem examination concerns the external and internal examination of the deceased to establish identity (if unknown), to determine time and cause of death. Under the written orders of the court, an exhumation can take place when suspicions of foul play arises after death. The author discusses death in terms of somatic (physical) or molecular (tissues and cells dying individually after vital organs have stopped functioning). The book also describes in detail the primary modes of dying, namely, syncope, asphyxia, and coma. The book explains the medico-legal aspects of injuries, pregnancy, legitimacy, rape, miscarriage, infanticide, and insanity. This book is intended for medical students, but can also benefit students in law courses, and practitioners of legal jurisprudence and of the medical sciences.

Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology for India covers some essential details and practical aspects of medical jurisprudence and toxicology. This book is organized into two part encompassing 34 chapters. The opening chapters of Part I deal with legal procedure in criminal courts, physical evidence of the crime, autopsy, exhumation, and some medico-legal practices. Considerable chapters are devoted to other aspects of legal medicine, including determination of death causation, legitimacy of evidence, incident of rape and unnatural offenses, miscarriage, infanticide, insanity, and the privileges of medical men. Part II focuses on the toxicological aspects. This part emphasizes the medico-legal aspects of some classes of poisons, such as corrosive, irritant, neurotic, cerebral, spinal, cardiac, and peripheral poisons. This book will prove useful to medical college students.

Medical Jurisprudence for India by Isidore Bernadotte Lyon is a seminal work on medical jurisprudence in the Indian context. It is an exhaustive volume that includes a large number of case references that provide the necessary interpretation of various rules and regulations regarding medicine and law in the country. Spread over many chapters and a long list of illustrations and appendix, Medical Jurisprudence for India will take the reader through the minutest of details in relation to the subject. It opens with a very informative introduction that summarizes key concepts and definitions which appear regularly in the book. Lyon skilfully illustrates the interdependence of medicine and law by providing in-depth analysis of tricky legal issues which make this work highly desirable for practitioners of law as well as medical students and civil doctors. The book is divided in to multiple parts including those on general examinations, sexual crimes, special injuries and toxicology among others. Lyon covers the entire length and breadth of the subject with the support of various illustrations, tables and statistics. His approach in understanding the nuances of identification in the case of dead bodies is of particular interest as it engages the reader with step wise instructions as well as probable challenges that might crop up during investigation. Way more than just a textbook, Medical Jurisprudence for India is an overarching work in the field of medical jurisprudence that will appeal to readers for its intuitive style of narration and detailed content. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.