| Description | Lecture notes on medical jurisprudence and on public health by Matthew Hay and taken down by [John Stuart], 28 April 1896 - 14 October 1899. These follow the general pattern of the standard text book on medical jurisprudence, A.S. Taylor: Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence, 1865 and later editions.
Contents: drawing of a horse, saddled, by J.G.S., 16 December 1899, pasted in.
Summary of contents. (Note that either some lectures have been omitted or that they ran on from previous ones with no marked division)
Lecture 1: Identification of the person (p.1) (including cutting on fingerprints)
Lecture 2: 'Disease or injury may remove the external genitals ...' (p.8)
Lecture 3: The eyes (p.16)
Lecture 4: 'Tatoo marks are made by a puncturing instrument ...' (p.23)
Lecture 5: 'In persons of advanced years the zigzag sutures e.g. of the skull may become fused.' (p.29)
Lecture 6: [signs of death] Pressure on the eyeball; loss of muscular contractility (p.38)
Lecture 7: 'Some of the contents go through the rectum and some go up the gullet ...' (p.49)
Lecture 8: Progress of putrefaction of a body lying in water (p.62)
Lecture 9: 'Injuries may which if they got the most skilful treatment would not prove fatal ...' (p.71)
Lecture 10: 'In making a P.M. examination for starvation ...' (p.81)
Lecture 13: Gunshot wounds (p.92)
Lecture 14: Dislocations and fractures (p.98)
Lecture 15: Injuries to the circulatory system (p.106)
Lecture 16: Wounds of the bladder ... (p.114)
Lecture 17: 'We have next to consider whether the injury was suicidal, homicidal or accidental' (p.125)
Lecture 18: 'In a case of suicide by cut throat ...' (p.133)
Lecture 19: Substances that give a blue colour with guiaicum resin (p.143)
Lecture 20: Red colouring matter resembling blood (p.146)
Lecture 21: 'There is protrusion of the tongue ...' [in cases of strangulation] (p.155)
Lecture 28: Drowning (p.162)
Lecture 29: 'There may be marks of violence about the body ...' (p.169)
Lecture 30: Injuries to the clothes (p.178)
Lecture 31: Offences against chastity (p.187)
Lecture 32: 'In the vaginal mucus an organism resembling very closely the spermatozoa may be found ...' (p.197)
Lecture 33: Foetal signs of pregnancy (p.207) Two exam papers inserted between pp. 210 and 211.
Lecture 34: Legitimacy (p.218)
Lecture 35: 'Cases of abortion usuall fall into the hands of untutored abortionists ...' (p.228)
Lecture 36: The Lungs (in determining whether or not a dead child was born alive) (p.238)
Lecture 37: 'If one finds that the cord has separated ...' (p.247)
Lecture 38: Protracted delivery (p.255)
Lecture 43: [methods of infanticide] (p.265)
Lecture 45: [intention in poison cases] (p.273)
Lecture 46: Decomposition of alkaloids (p.285)
Lecture 47: 'Some tissues are more readily affected by poisons than others ...' (p.297)
Lecture 48: Emetics (p.309)
Lecture 49: Further notes on poisoning (p.318)
Lecture 50: The post mortem examination (p.326)
Lecture 51: Chemico-microscopical analysis (p.334)
Lecture 52: Phosphorus poisoning (p.346) (cutting of illustration inserting showing white lines on finger nails symptomatic of arsenic poisoning)
Lecture 53: 'In Marsh's Test [for arsenic] the hydrogen being given off from the Zinc ...' (p.357)
Lecture 54: Lead poisoning (p.367)
Lecture 55: The Alcohol Group [of poisons] (p.376)
Lecture 56: The Atrophine Group [of poisons] (p.383)
Lecture 57: Strychnine (p.393)
Lecture 58: Partial moral mania (p.400)
Lecture 59: Certificates of insanity, death, vaccination, etc., and advice on the giving of evidence in court (p.407)
Index (p.413)
Repagination after p.426
Public Health lectures.
Lecture 1: Sanitary Law (p.1)
Lecture 2: continuing the Public Health Act (p.8)
Lecture 3: 'Power is given in the Public Health Act to require a house to be disinfected' (p.17)
Lecture 22: 'If the child is unfit for vaccination ...' (p.26)
Lecture 23: Disinfection of clothing and bedding (p.34)
Lecture 24: The methods of prosecution of the sending out of milk of tubercular cows (p.43)
Lecture 25: Dissolved solids in water (p.54)
Lecture 26: The estimation of organic matter in water (p.61)
Lecture 27: Water filters (p.73)
Lecture 39: The removal of sewage and refuse matters (p.81)
Lecture 40: Filtration of sewage (p.95)
Lecture 41: Size and inclination of house drains (p.102) (glued in is an advertisement for Dinning & Cooke's improved sanitary system, and a leaflet on treating the 'apparently drowned')
Lecture 42: Water closets and other plumbing (p.113)
Note on 'The Temperance Fallacy' by G. Archdall Reid, quoted from The Lancet, 14 October 1899.
Three cuttings glued in at end, all concerning industrial injuries, one from the Northern Echo 1906.
Two x-ray photographs of a hand inserted at back. |