Forensic medicine and toxicology. Reference to the coroner.

Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Accident and suicide are the two main epidemiological categories of poisoning; at home and at work are the two main places for it to occur; and clinically it may conveniently be classed as acute or chronic. Availability plays an important part in the incidence of poisoning and in the choice of agent by a person intending suicide, in the substance swallowed by a child, and in the toxic agent aff...

Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

This work is an addition to the many useful works forming the "Medical Series" being issued by the Messrs. Griffin for practitioners and students, and is produced by them in a pleasant type and on good paper. We presume Dr. Mann's Lectures are the original basis of this work, as it partakes so much of the very necessary compression needed by such a subject for such a purpose. To treat the subje...

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Reporting biochemical toxicology to the coroner must be improved.

Biochemical toxicology for the coroner should encompass a wide ranging analytical screen for drugs and toxic compounds. A multidisciplinary case conference in appropriate complex cases must become the norm to furnish the coroner with expert advice where toxicology is a factor in the cause of death. A networked Institute of Forensic Services in Ireland should be formed to integrate toxicology, c...