Medico-Legal Case: Uraemia, or Opium Poisoning?

Case of Opium Poisoning

1/ To the Editor of " The Indian Medical Gazette.' Sir-I send you the following notes of a case for publicatl0Kam Slioshi Mandal, Hindu, aged about 18 years, was brought to the Police Case HospitalI Alipore, at 12-30 P.M., 12th September 1901, with the following history He had been in the habit for months past of taking a morning and evening dose of bazaar opium, about ten grains each time, to ...

[Medico-legal aspects of food poisoning].

A Medico-Legal Case

On fhp 3rd August 1902 I held the post-mortem examination on the body of a native female child aged about 4 The ooiice reported that about 15 days before her death shT was accidentally kicked by her brother-in-law, aubsem,tntlv 3 days before her death, she was thrown on the ground'by the same brother-in-law from the lap of her 81 The child's mother brought her to the Campbell Hospital where she...

A Medico-Legal Case

The following ease occurred at Mliow in September 18G5. Apart from its interost in a medical point of view, it also possesses considerable interest legally in the determination of f bo^Y fur an external bruise, produced by a fall or blow, would ( cauee the extensive apoplectic clot found after deatli^ For it is to be noted that the deceased was seen alire in company with three European soldiers...

A Medico-Legal Case

cases are on record. In August, 1869, I was invited by the civil surgeon of a large station in Sind to assist him at a post-mortem examination of the body of a young girl. A European officer had had sexual intercourse with her, and her friends stated that immediately on leaving his house she complained of severe pain and lost much blood. No attempt was made to obtain surgical assistance, and sh...