An Address ON POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS WHICH DO NOT REVEAL THE CAUSE OF DEATH

Post-Mortem Examinations

This is a volume that should fill a long-felt want so far as ordinary medical post-mortem examinations are concerned. There are very few books dealing with the subject and of these the majority require revising in the light of recent advances in knowledge. The author, who has had a very wide experience, deals in a most comprehensive manner with his subject. His aim has been to study the human b...

Notes from Post--Mortem Examinations

Post-Mortem Examinations in India

Notes on Post-Mortem Examinations Conducted in the Pooree District

No. VIII. given in appendix was examined a quarter of an hour after death ; one and a half ounce of bloody serum was found in the pericardium. Failing to effect asphyxia in dogs by ?hanging in as short a period as occurs in man, drowning was tried. The result, as will be read from cases given, gives support to the view that early and complete asphyxia is not followed b}' pericardial bloody seru...

Post-Mortem Examinations in the Punjab : An Analytical Study of 669 Examinations from 1923 to 1944

A statistical generalization of disease incidence based on post-mortem findings has its drawbacks as well as its advantages. In India where autopsies among^ the not-too-poor class of patients in the hospitals and the private patients outside are 1 tabooAvhere the subjects are mostly unclaimed bodies of beggars, vagrants and inmates of jails and asylums an adequate cross-section of the populatio...