Post-mortem Examinations

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

Pre-testing Screening for HIV before Conducting Post-mortem Examinations

Autopsy safety was not much of a consideration until the 1980s when HIV infection appeared. At first, the emphasis was placed on the prevention of infection by establishing "universal precautions". Along with this came procedures and regulations to minimize the possibility of cuts and needle sticks. Other hazards were eventually identified, and appropriate precautions were implemented to varyin...

Summary of Fifty Post-Mortem Examinations of Inhabitants of Jessore

The examinations which form the subject of the following notes were all, with two or three exceptions, performed by myself, and the facts in each case were noted at the time of performance. The summary will possess a peculiar ethnological and pathological value, from the circumstance that all the subjects examined were natives of this district. So many cases of individuals, whose life and ances...