A
Abandoning of, infants, 416
Abdomen, injuries of, 253
Abortion, 374
cause of death, 383
duties of practitioners in, 382
legal aspects, 374
signs of, in the dead, 379
signs of, in the living, 379
Abrasions, 171
Abrasion collar, 212
Abrecation, 447
Abrus precatorius, 516
Accidental injury of childhood, 417
Accident, register, 276
Acetaminophen, 587
Acetylsalicylic acid, 586
Acid phosphatase test, 406
Aconite, poisoning by, 574
Acrodynia, 506
Activated charcoal, 480
Acts of commission, 416
Acts of omission, 416
Actus reus, 459
Acute tubular necrosis, 286
Acute yellow atrophy, 513
Adipocere, 162
Affective disorder, 447
Affiliation cases, 371
Age, in identification, 55
certificate, 621
criminal responsibility, 79
estimation, 620
foetus, 80
medicolegal importance, 79
Agricultural poisons, 484
AIDS, 141
Air bags, injuries, 265
Air blast, 226
Aircraft injuries, 268
Air embolism, 104
Air guns, 216
Alcohol gaze nystagmus, 531
Alcohol and sudden death, 540
Alcoholic anonymous, 532
Alcoholic blackout, 538
Alcoholic palimpsests, 538
Aldrich-Mees lines, 503
Algolagnia, 403
Algor mortis, 145
Alkaline diuresis, 548
Alkalis, caustic, 499
Alkaloids, 515
Aluminium phosphide, 491
Amanita muscaria, 592
Amanita phalloides, 592
Amentia, 451
American law institute test, 460
Ammonia, 499
Amnesia, following head injury, 239
Amniotic fluid embolism, 383
Amphetamine, 552
Anaesthetic deaths, 353
Analgesics, 527
Analytical methods in toxicology, 608
Anaphylactic deaths, 140
Anilingus, 404
Animals in research, 604
Anoxia, 130
Anterograde amnesia, 239
Anthropometry, 82
Antidepressants, 552
Antidotes, 480
Antihistaminics, 589
Antimony, poisoning by, 511
Antipyretics, 586
Antivenin, 527
Aorta, injuries, 264
Aphasia, 447
Appendices, 595
Arborescent markings, 312
Arc eye, 309
Arcus senilis, 78
ARDS, 343
Argemone Mexicana, 592
Arrack, 528
Arrow poisons, 467
Arsenic, poisoning by, 482
Artefacts, 436
Arteries, injuries of, 257
Artificial bruise, 179
Asphyxia, 130
Asphyxial deaths, 472
Asphyxial stigmata, 133
Asphyxiants, 576
Aspirin, 586
Assault, 280
Assisted reproductive technique, 362
Assisted suicide, 52
Asthma, death from, 141
Atavism, 372
Athello syndrome, 448
Atropa belladonna, 558
Autoerotic deaths, 351
Autolysis, 156
Automatic weapons, 201
Autopsy, in AIDS, 115
endoscopic technique, 114
HRC recommendations, 116
laboratory procedures, 116
medicolegal, 98
negative, 136
obscure, 137
organs, examination, 105
protocol, 100
psychological, 114
radioactive corpse, 116
virtual, 114
Avulsion, 181
B
B.A.L., 481
Baby farmer, 314
Back calculations, alcohol, 535
Bacterial food poisoning, 590
Bagging, 565
Balling of shot, 208
Ballistics, 197
Ballottement, 368
Bansdola, 335
Barberio's test, 406
Barbiturate, poisoning by, 544
Barium, poisoning by, 511
Basophilic stippling, 507
Bastard, 371
Battered baby, 417
Battered wife, 398
Beating heart donor, 129
Bee and wasp stings, 526
Benzidine test, 422
Benzodiazipines, 553
Berry aneurysms, 245
Bertillon's system, 82
Bestiality, 402
Bevelling cut, 184
Billiard ball ricochet effect, 208
Bhang, 558
Biocremation, 120
Biomedical waste, 605
Biological tests for pregnancy, 369
Biological warfare, 582
Bite marks, identification, 95
Black eye, 228
Bladder, injuries, 256
Blank cartridge, 219
Blast lung, 226
Blistering gases, 580
Blood groups, 424
Blood groups, in tissues, 426
Blood stains, 420
Blood transfusion, hazards, 429
Blue vitriol, 509
Bobbit syndrome, 405
Body packer syndrome, 564
Body stuffer syndrome, 565
Bone pearls, 310
Bones, examination of, 121
Bones, normal and abnormal, 87
Borrowed servant doctrine, 45
Botulism, 591
Boxing injuries, 268
Boyde's method, 69
Brain, contusions, 234
death, 128
fixation, 112
lacerations, 236
mechanism of injuries, 234
oedema, 241
p.m. examination,
Brain fingerprinting, 446
Brain mapping, 446
Breslau, second life test, 413
Brown sugar, 545
Buggery, 399
Bulbocavernous test, 358
Bullet graze, 218
Bullets, 203
crime, 222
explosive, 203
fingerprinting, 222
frangible, 219
piggyback, 218
plastic, 203
primary markings, 222
ricochet, 217
secondary markings, 222
souvenir, 219
tandem, 218
tumbling, 217
yawning, 217
Bumper injuries, 259
Burking, 341
Burtonian line, 507
C
Cadaveric alkaloids, 591
Cafe coronary, 340
Caffey syndrome, 417
Calculated risk cases, 37
Calibre, of firearm, 209
Cannabis, poisoning by, 558
Cannelure, 202
Cantharides, poisoning by, 518
Capsicum annum, 517
Carbine, 199
Carbolic acid, poisoning by, 497
Carbon dioxide, poisoning by, 579
Carbon monoxide, poisoning, 544
Cardiac concussion, 252
Cardiac poisons, 572
Carunculae hymenales, 367
Casper dictum, 161
Catamite, 399
Cause of death, from wounds, 282
Centipedes, poisoning, 526
Cephalhaematoma, 414
Cerbera odallam, 574
Cerebral injury, mechanism, 234
Certificates and proformas
age, 621
death, 617
drunkenness, 626
exhumation, 616
fitness, 626
health and age, 627
impotency, female, 625
male, 625
leave, 626
postmortem, 612
rape, accused, 622
rape victim, 621
sodomy, accused, 623
wound, 619
Chalcosis, 510
Chemical antidotes, 481
Chemical hydrolysis, 120
Chemical warfare, 581
Chest, injuries of, 253
Child sexual abuse, 397
Chilotic line, 63
Chlorinated compounds, 488
Chloroform, poisoning by, 469
Chlorophenoxyacetates, 489
Choke hold, 336
Choking, 339
Choking of guns, 199
Chromodachryorrhoea, 486
Civil negligence, 34
Cleistanthus Collinus,
Clothes and ornaments, 97
Cobra, poisoning by, 519
Cocaine bugs, 561
Code of medical ethics, 599
Coitus per os, 401
Cold, death from, 295
Cold stiffening, 154
Colour markings on dead body, 151
Coma cocktail, 545
Coma, diagnosis of, 544
Commando punch, 333
Common knowledge doctrine, 37
Commorientes, 169
Comparison microscopes, 611
Complexion, in identity, 90
Computer superimposition, 86
Concealed puncture wounds, 191
Conditioned reflex treatment, 532
Conduct money, 9
Conium maculatum, 571
Consent in medical practice, 48
Consumer's Protection Act, 602
Contact pallor, 149
Contributory negligence, 38
Contusions, 174
Contusion collar, 213
Cooling, of body after death, 145
Copper, poisoning by, 509
Coroner's inquest, 7
Corporate negligence, 40
Cot, or crib death, 418
Crash helmet, 265
Criminal Procedure Code, 6
Criminal, responsibility in
insanity,
Crocodile flash burns, 309
Croton, poisoning by, 516
Crush syndrome, 286
Cunnilingus, 404
Cupping, in abortion, 377
Curren's rule, 460
Current pearls, 310
Custodial rape, 388
Custody, deaths, 279
Cyanide, poisoning by, 130
Cyclists, injuries, 265
D
Danbury tremors, 505
Dactylography, 82
Dangerous injuries, 274
Dangerous weapons, 275
Date rape, 387
Datura, poisoning by, 91
Deadborn child, 409
Death,
brain stem, 128
cause of, 129
Harvard criteria, 129
in custody, 279
immediate causes, 282
modes of, 130
molecular, 130
moment of, 154
remote causes, 285
somatic, 128
sudden, 252
time of, 135
Declaration of Helsinki, 600
Defence wounds, 194
Defensive medicine, 41
Deformities, 88
Deliriant poisons, 556
Dementia, 451
Depressive illnesses, 448
Dermal nitrate test, 223
Dermatoglyphics, 82
Desert syndrome, 297
Desferrioxamine, 482
Diabetes, death from, 99
Diaphragm, injuries of, 253
Digitalis, poisoning by, 572
Dipsomania, 449
Discharge of mentally ill person, 457
Disciplinary control, 25
Dismembered bodies, 82
Doctor in witness box, 16
Domestic gas explosion, 227
Drug automatism, 477
Drug idiosyncrasy, 141
Drugs, hard, soft, 568
Dry drowning, 342
Dry lung drowning, 346
Dry wine, 548
Duration of pregnancy, 373
Duret haemorrhages, 241
Durham rule, 460
Duties,
at scene of crime, 17
in criminal abortion, 382
in criminal matters, 33
in suspected poison, 477
in witness box, 16
of patients, 33
Dying deposition, 11
E
Ear prints, 85
Economy class syndrome, 287
Ecotoxicology, 467
Ecstasy, 555
Effacement, of identity, 120
Electric burns, 309
Electric mark, 308
Electrophoresis, 610
Emasculation, 273
Embalming, 164
Emetics, 479
Emmenagogues, 376
Empathy, 448
Emphysema aquosum, 345
Emprosthotonus, 570
Emptying of stomach, 167
Encephalitis lead,
Endrin, 488
Entomology of cadaver, 167
Environmental suffocation, 336
Eonism, 404
Epidemic dropsy, 592
Epilepsy, death from, 141
Epileptic automatism, 462
Epileptic psychosis, 452
Epiphyses, union with shafts, 70
Erasure of name, 26
Ergot, 517
Erotomania, 448
Eruption of teeth, 67
Ether, poisoning by, 542
Ethical negligence, 42
Ethylene glycol, 542
Eunuch, 399
Euthanasia, 52
Evidence, collection, 19
Evidence, preservation, 19
Ewing's postulates, 293
Examination-in-chief, 13
Excited delirium, 282
Exhibitionism, 404
Expert witness, 12
Extradural haemorrhage, 242
F
Fabricated wounds, 196
Face, injuries of, 243
Fall from height, 256
Falls, 256
False virgin, 366
Fat embolism, 287
Fecundation ab extra, 360
Feeble mindedness, 451
Feigned mental insanity, 454
Fellatio, 404
Fetichism, 403
Filicide, 409
Filigree burns, 312
Fingerprints, 84
Firearm wounds, 204
First-hand knowledge rule, 12
Fish, poisoning by, 593
Fishtailing, 189
Flashback phenomenon, 555
Floatation of body, 351
Florence test, 406
Fluidity of blood, postmortem, 108
Fluorides, 490
Fodere's test, 411
Foetal heart sounds, 369
Foeticide, 409
Foetus age estimation, 80
Follidol, 484
Food allergy, 591
Food poisoning, 590
Foot prints, 185
Forensic ballistics, 197
Forensic medicine, definition of, 1
Forensic odontology, 94
Forensic pathology, 1
Forensic psychiatry, 447
Forensic science laboratory, 615
Formaldehyde, 589
Formic acid, 498
Formulae for stature, 606
Fouling, 212
Fractures, 229
Friction burn, 172
Frigidity, 357
Frost bite, 295
Frotteurism, 405
Fugue, 448
Full term child, 81
Functional psychoses, 452
G
Gagging, 338
Ganja, 558
Garrotting, 336
Gauge, of firearms, 198
Gay clubs, 401
Gerontophilia, 399
Gettler test, 349
Glass blower's shakes, 505
Glass, powder, 480
Glossory of legal terms, 595
Grease or dirt collar, 212
Grenade, 201
Group specific substances, 426
Growth in bones, 69
Gustafson's method, 67
H
Haase, rule of, 82
Haemin crystal test, 422
Haemochromogen test, 423
Haemoglobins, abnormal, 427
Haemorrhage, 439
Hallucinations, 448
Hangman's fracture, 324
Haptoglobulins, 427
Harakiri, 193
Harrison Gilroy test, 223
Hashish, 558
Hatter's shakes, 505
Hearsay evidence, 9
Heart, dissection, 111
Heart, injuries, 294
Heat cramps, 296
Heat exhaustion, 296
Heat prostration, 296
Heat stiffening, 154
Hegar's sign, 368
Hemlock, 571
Henry's law, 536
Hermaphroditism, 58
Heroin, 545
Hesitation cuts, 185
Hide-and-die syndrome, 296
Hijrah, 399
Hippocratic oath, 25
Hippus, 575
Hit and run, 267
HIV, 141
HLA, 427
Hog-tying, 280
Holograph will, 458
Homosexuality, 399
Hostile witness, 13
Hot shot, 563
Household poisons, 468
Huffing, 565
Human experimentation, 600
Human organs, transplantation Act, 603
Human Rights Act, 604
Humane killers, 201
Hurt, 273
Hydrocarbons, 549
Hydrochloric acid, 495
Hydrocyanic acid, 582
Hydrogen sulphide, 579
Hydrostatic lung, 347
Hyperthermic anhydrosis, 297
Hyperventilation deaths, 350
Hypnotism, 462
I
Iatrogenic diseases, 53
Icthyosarcotoxic, 593
Identification, data, 57
Idiocy, 451
Idiomuscular contraction, 130
Illusion, 449
Imbeciles, 328
Immediate restraint, 455
Immersion foot, 295
Immersion syndrome, 342
Immunoassay methods, 610
Impulses, 449
IMC regulations, 25
Incendiary bombs, 227
Incest, 398
Incised wounds, 183
Incised-like wounds, 180
Incremental lines, 67
Indecent assault, 398
Indian Evidence Act, 6
Indian Medical Degrees Act, 23
Indian Penal Code, 6
Inebriant poisons, 528
Infamous conduct, 26
Infanticide, 409
Infantile whiplash syndrome, 417
Inflow-outflow method, 106
Informed consent, 49
Inhibition of heart, 139
Injury, 271
Inquest, 6
Insanity, 447
certification, 454
civil responsibility, 457
classification, 451
criminal responsibility, 459
diagnosis, 454
diminished responsibility, 462
feigned, 454
murder in, 460
Insecticides, poisoning by, 484
Instantaneous physiological death, 139
Instantaneous rigor, 154
Insulin, 587
Intelligence quotient, 451
Intermittent uterine contractions, 368
International Code of Medical Ethics, 599
Intersexuality, 358
Intracerebral haemorrhage, 247
Intracranial haemorrhage, 242
Intraventricular haemorrhage, 247
Iodides, poisoning by, 514
Iris, in identification, 85
Iron, poisoning by, 510
Irresistible impulse test, 460
Irritant mechanical poisons, 552
Isopropanol, 542
Istanbul protocol, 279
J
Joints, injuries of, 259
Joule burn, 308
Judicial, electrocution, 311
execution, 585
hanging, 323
procedure of state council, 25
punishment, 79
Jury, 7
Juvenile, 79
K
Karate blow, 333
Kastle-Meyer test, 422
Kennedy phenomenon, 219
Kernohan's notch, 241
Kesari dhal, 591
Kidnapping, 80
Kidneys, injuries of, 255
Kleptomania, 449
Klinefelter's syndrome, 57
Knockout drops, 549
Knot, in hanging, 315
Korsakov's psychosis, 452
Kozelka and Hine test, 536
Krait, poisoning by, 519
Kronlein shot, 221
L
Lachrymators, 581
Ladder tears, 264
Laryngeal oedema, 304
Lathyrus sativus, 591
Laughing gas, 580
Le facie sympathique, 321
Lead encephalopathy, 507
Lead line, 507
Lead palsy, 507
Lead, poisoning by, 506
Leading question, 14
Legal procedure, 6
Legal test, 459
Lesbianism, 401
Leucomaines, 591
Lie detector, 445
Lightning, death from, 312
Linea nigra, 368
Lip prints, 85
Liquid gold, 553
Livebirth, signs, 410
Liver, injuries of, 254
Livor mortis, 147
Local anaesthesia, 355
Locard's principle of exchange, 443
Lochia, 372
Loco parentis, 51
LSD, 554
Lung irritants, 580
Lungs, wounds of, 252
Lust murder, 403
Lynching, 323
M
Maceration of foetus, 409
Magistrates, 7
Magistrate's inquest, 7
Maggots, 158
Magnan symptom, 561
Majoon, 558
Male genital organs, injuries, 256
Male prostitutes, 401
Male sexual assault, 402
Malignant hyperpyrexia, 354
Malingering, 53
Malpractice litigation, 42
Malpraxis, 34
Mandrax, 548
Manganese, 510
Manic-depressive psychosis, 453
Manual strangulation, 329
Marbling, 157
Marihuana, 552
Marital rape, 387
Marking nut, 517
Masochism, 403
Masquerades, M.L, 17
Mass disasters, 269
Masturbation, 404
Mc Ewan sign, 531
Mc Naughten rule, 459
MCI regulations regarding medical records, 49
Mechanical antidote, 480
Mechanical asphyxia, 315
Mechanical explosion, 227
Mechanical injuries, 170
Meconium, 413
Medical certificates, 9
Medical certification of death, 10
Medical councils, 24
Medical education, 23
Medical ethics, 1
Medical etiquette, 1
Medical evidence, 9
Medical examiner's system, 7
Medical indemnity insurance, 47
Medical jurisprudence, 1
Medical maloccurrence, 37
Medical records, 47
Medical Termination of
Pregnancy Act, 374
Medicolegal autopsy, 98
Medicolegal cases, 20
Medicolegal reports, 10
Melancholia, 453
Mens rea, 459
Mental Health Act, 454
Mental retardation, 451
Meperidine, 546
Mercurial erethism, 505
Mercurialentis, 505
Metal fume fever, 511
Metallic fouling, 222
Methadone, 546
Methaemoglobinaemia, 588
Methane, 580
Methaquolone, 548
Methyl alcohol, 540
Methyl isocyanate, 580
Mickey finn, 549
Microscopes, 611
Micturition syncope, 531
Miniature batteries, 499
Modes of death, 130
Molecular death, 130
Moles, 88
Molotov cocktail, 227
Moment of death, 128
Mongolian spots, 88
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors, 553
Morning sickness, 368
Morphine, 543
Mugging, 336
Multidose activated charcoal, 480
Mummification, 163
Munchausen's syndrome, 418
Munich beer heart, 531
Murder, 271
Muscular rigidity, p.m. due to gases, 168
Mushrooms, 592
Musket, 199
Mutilated bodies, 120
Mutilomania, 449
Mutism, 451
Muzzle-loading gun, 222
Mydriatic test, 558
Myiasis, 167
Mycotoxicosis, 591
N
Naphthalene, 551
Narcoanalysis, 445
Narcotic and Psychotropic
Drugs Act, 465
Nasal irritants, 581
Near-drowning, 341
Neck, injuries, 139
Necrophagia, 403
Necrophilia, 403
Negative autopsy, 136
Negligence, prevention, 41,
Neonatal cold injury, 296
Neonaticide, 409
Nerium odorum, 573
Nerve gases, 581
Nerves, injuries, 257
Neurasthenia, 451
Neurogenic failure, 283
Neuroleptics, 553
Neutron activation analysis, 610
Nickel, 511
Nicotiana tabacum, 572
Nitrates, 588
Nitric acid, 495
Nobbing fractures, 418
Non-accidental injury of childhood, 417
Noose, 317
Novus actus interveniens, 38
Nux vomica, 569
Nymphomania, 402
Nystagmus, alcohol gaze, 531
O
Oath, 13
Obliteration of identity, 120
Obscure autopsy, 137
Obsession, 449
Occupant ejection, 264
Occupants of vehicles, injuries, 262
Occupation marks, 90
Odontology, 94
Oedema aquosum, 345
Oedipus complex, 405
Offensive manual injuries, 195
Oleanders, 573
Oligophrenia, 484
Oneiroid state, 449
Oochronosis, 497
Operation deaths, 353
Ophitoxaemia, 522
Opisthotonus, 570
Opium, poisoning by, 544
Oral evidence, 11
Organochlorines, 488
Organophosphates, 487
Osteometric board, 123
Overkill homicide, 193
Overlaying, 338
Oximes, 487
P
Paederasty, 399
Palatoprints, 85
Palmar strangulation, 334
Paltauf's haemorrhages, 345
Pancreas, injuries, 254
Paracetamol, 587
Paradox gun, 199
Paradoxical undressing, 296
Paraffin test, 223
Paraldehyde, 549
Paralysants, 581
Paranoia, 539
Paraphilias, 402
Paraquat, poisoning by 489
Parasuicide, 471
Partial hanging, 315
Pascal's law, 255
Paternalism, 49
Paternity, 426
Pearson's formulae, 123
Pedestrians, injuries to 259
Pedophile, 399
Penal erasure, 26
Penal provisions and medical practice, 53
Penicillamine, 482
Peripheral nerve poisons, 571
Peritoneal dialysis, 483
Perjury, 13
Personality disorders, 453
Petechial haemorrhages, 131
Pethidine, 546
Pharmacological antidotes, 481
Pharmacy Act, 465
Phencyclidine, 553
Phenol, poisoning by, 497
Phenolphthalein test, 422
Phobia, 449
Phosphorus, poisoning by, 512
Phossy jaw, 513
Physical antidotes, 480
Physical evidence, 443
Physician-patient relationship, 33
Physiological antidotes, 481
Phytotoxin, 515
Piggyback bullet, 218
Pink disease, 506
Pink teeth, 94
Pistols, wounds from, 209
Plant toxins, 515
Plasma specific gravity test, 349
Play piercing, 405
Pleurosthotonus, 570
Ploucquet's test, 411
Plumbago rosea, 518
Plumbism, 506
Pneumothorax, 104
Point blank range, 211
Poisons, Acts, 464
action of, 470
analysis, 475
classification, 467
criminal offences, 469
conditions modifying, 470
diagnosis, in the dead, 471
diagnosis, in the living, 471
duties of doctors, 477
elimination, 470
environmental, 466
epidemiology, 466
failure to detect, 476
false positive, 476
fate in body, 469
household, 468
ideal, homicidal, 467
ideal, suicidal, 467
information centres, 467
occupational, 466
prevention, 467
routes of administration, 469
treatment, 478
types, 471
Police inquest, 6
Polygraph, 445
Poppy capsules, 543
Poroscopy, 83
Positional asphyxia, 130
Postepileptic insanity, 485
Postmortem, caloricity, 147
changes, 144
examination, 98
hanging, 323
interval, 167
lividity, 151
purge, 158
Posthumous child, 370
Post-traumatic automatism, 239
Postural asphyxia, 131
Potassium permanganate, 510
Powdered glass, 514
Power piston, 202
Pralidoxime, 487
Precipitate labour, 415
Precipitin test, for blood, 423
Pregnancy, diagnosis of, 367
biological tests, 369
immunological tests, 369
length of, 379
ml. importance, 392
Prenatal Diagnostic
Techniques Act, 604
Preservation, m.l evidence, 19
Preservation of viscera, 117
Preternatural combustion, 307
Primary flaccidity, 151
Primary impact injuries, 259
Primary markings, on bullets, 222
Primary shock, 283
Primers, 202
Privileged communications, 32
Products liability, 46
Prostate specific antigen, 406
Pseudocyesis, 371
Pseudostrangulation, 325
Psychedelics, 554
Psychological autopsy, 114
Psychopath, 450
Psychoses, 450
Psychotropic drugs, 552
Ptomaine poisoning, 591
Puberty, changes at, 78
Pugilistic attitude, 300
Punchdrunk, 268
Punctate basophilia, 507
Punctured wounds, 187
Punishments, 8
Puppe's rule, 213
Pyrethrins, 490
R
Race, in identification, 85
Radioactive carbon, 169
Radio-opaque poisons, 567
Railway injuries, 268
Railway spine, 251
Raindrop pigmentation, 503
Rape, 384
accused, exam, 388
crisis centres, 396
date rape, 387
deflorate woman, 393
marital, 387
medicolegal questions, 396
on a child, 394
on a virgin, 391
statutory, 387
trauma syndrome, 396
victim, exam, 388
Raygat's test, 411
Reaction phenomenon, 345
Reception order in lunacy, 456
Reciprocal undressing, 296
Recoil abrasion, 205
Record of evidence, 13
Red cell, enzyme polymorphisms, 428
Red cross emblem, 28
Reefer, 558
Re-examination, 15
Regional injuries, 228
Religion in identification, 57
Res indicata, 44
Respirator brain, 241
Respirator lung, 99
Respondeat superior, 45
Restraint of the mentally ill person, 455
Retina, in identification, 85
Reye's syndrome, 586
Rh system, 425
Rib, fractures, 251
Ricinus communis, 515
Ricochet of bullets, 217
Rifle, wounds, 216
Rifled slugs, 202
Rifling, 198
Rigor mortis, 151
Risus sardonicus, 570
Road poison, 557
Rockets, 201
Rolling injuries, 261
Rule of nines, 298
Run amok, 559
Run over injuries, 267
Ryle's tube, 479
S
Sadism, 402
Salicylic acid, 586
Saponification, 162
Saturday night paralysis, 538
Saturnism, 506
Satyriasis, 358
Scalds, 306
Scalp, wounds, 242
Scandinavian method, 547
Scars, 88
Scene of crime, visit to, 219
Sciatic notch index, 61
Scoptophilia, 404
Scorpion, poisoning, 526
Scratch, 172
Scuba diving, 350
Sea snakebite, 523
Seat belt injuries, 264
Second autopsy, 127
Second collision, 279
Secondary drowning, 342
Secondary flaccidity, 151
Secondary impact injuries, 259
Secondary markings, 222
Secondary sex characters, 78
Secondary shock, 283
Secretors, 426
Self-inflicted wounds, 184
Semecarpus anacardium, 517
Serum protein polymorphism, 427
Sessions trial, 20
Sewer gas, 580
Sex chromatin, 57
Sexual asphyxias, 351
Sexual assault, 402
Sexual dysfunction, 357
Sexual oralism, 404
Sexual perversions, 402
Shear strain, 236
Shock lung, 285
Shored exit wound, 215
Shotguns, wounding by, 204
Signs of death, 144
Simple injury, 275
Sin of Gomorrah, 401
Skeleton, sexual characters, 60
Skeletonisation, 162
Skin, changes after death, 145
Skull, age and sutures, 88
firearms wounds, 224
identification of sex from, 61
thermal fractures, 302
types of fractures, 244
Slippery elm bark, 378
Smegma, 398
Smothering, 337
Snake venom, 520
Snakes, 519
Sniffing, 565
Solvent abuse, 565
Somatic death, 128
Somnambulism, 462
Somnolentia, 462
Souvenir bullet, 219
Spark burns, 309
Sparrow foot marks, 263
Spectroscopic exam, of blood, 423
Spermatozoa, human, 407
Spiders, 527
Spinal, anaesthesia, 356
Spinal poisons, 569
Spleen, injuries, 272
Spontaneous combustion, 307
Stab wounds, 196
Stack's method, 69
Stalking, 386
Starvation, 313
State Medical Council, 24
Static test for respiration, 439
Stature, assessment of, 82
Statutory rape, 387
Steering-wheel impact injury, 268
Sterilisation, 361
Sternutators, 581
Stillbirth, 409
Stomach, 113
contents, examination of, 108
in estimation of time, 176
of death, 176
in poisoning, 508
injuries, 254
tube, use of in poisoning, 514
Stomach-bowel test, 413
Stomping, 176
Strangulation, 416
Strychnine, poisoning by, 570
Stud gun, 201
Subendocardial haemorrhages, 108
Sudden death, after violent
struggle, 280
Sudden infant death syndrome, 418
Suicide, abetment, 272
Suis, 517
Sulphur dioxide, 580
Sulphuric acid, 493
Sunstroke, 296
Superfecundation, 370
Superfoetation, 371
Superimposition, skull-photo, 86
Supposititious children, 372
Suprarenal haemorrhage, 290
Surrogate motherhood, 363
Survivorship, 169
Suspended animation, 144
Swallow tails, 182
Symphysis pubis, 71
Syringing in abortion, 381
T
Tache noir, 145
Takayama test, 423
Tandem bullet, 218
Tandem cartridge, 219
Taphonomy, 144
Tardieu spots, 134
Tattoo marks, 89
Tear gases, 581
Teichmann's test, 422
Temporal bone haemorrhages, 347
Tentative cuts, 184
Test tube babies, 362
Testamentary capacity, 458
Thallium, poisoning by, 510
Thanatology, 128
Therapeutic index, 476
Therapeutic misadventure, 44
Therapeutic privilege, 49
Therapeutic wounds, 197
Thermal deaths, 295
Thermal fractures, skull, 302
Thrombosis, 287
Throttling, 329
Time since death, 121
Tissue bridges, 182
Tobacco, 572
Torture, 278
Tower of silence, 169
Toxalbumen, 515
Toxicologic radiology, 567
Toxicology, definition, 464
Trace evidence, 443
Traffic accidents, 259
Trafficking of person, 386
Tranquilisers, 553
Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 603
Transsexualists, 404
Transvestism, 404
Trauma, 246
Trauma and disease, 293
Trauma and myocardial infarction, 293
Traumatic asphyxia, 340
Trench foot, 295
Triage, 265
Tribadism, 401
Trichology, 91
Troilism, 405
Trotter and Glesser's formulae, 606
Truth serum drugs, 445
Turkey skin, 566
Turner's syndrome, 58
Turpentine, 550
Twilight state, 452
Typical drowning, 342
U
Ultrasonography, 369
Umbilical cord, changes in, 414
Under the influence, 537
Underrunning, 266
Undertaker's fracture, 105
Undinism, 405
Unethical acts, 599
Unintentional cuts, 184
Universal antidote, 481
Unnatural offences, 399
Uranism, 402
Uterine souffle, 369
V
Vagal inhibition, 135
Vaginismus, 360
Vegetative state, 129
Vehicle occupants, injuries, 262
Veins, injuries, 257
Venomous fish, 594
Verdigris, 509
Vernix caseosa, 414
Vesicants, 580
Viability, of foetus, 410
Vicarious liability, 45
Video superimposition, 86
Viper bites, 525
Virginity, signs of, 367
Virtopsy, 114
Virtual autopsy, 114
Viscera, preservation, 584
Vitreous humour, 168
Vitriol throwing, 494
Volatile substance abuse, 565
Volunteering of information, 17
W
Wad, 222
War gases, poisoning by, 580
Warning notice, 26
Warrant cases, 19
Washerwoman's hands, 345
Water intoxication, 587
Wax drippings, 310
White cell antigens, 427
Whole bowel irrigation, 482
Widmark's formula, 535
Wife battering, 398
Witness box, 16
Witnesses and evidence, 9
Word association, 446
Workmen's Compensation Act, 601
abrasions, 171
antemortem or postmortem, 290
cause of death in, 282
certificate, 619
chop, 186
contusions, 174
defence, 194
fabricated, 196
firearms, 204
healing, 291
histochemical changes, 290
incised, 183
lacerated, 180
offensive, 195
medicolegal aspects, 271
self-inflicted, 196
stab, 187
therapeutic, 197
Wredin's test, 413