Has Adipocere Been Observed in India
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"adipocere" we only find one publication which speaks of this change being observed in a warm country, i.e., " Eight cases of Saponification " by S. C. Mackenzie (.Indian Medical Gazette, 1889, XXIV, p. 42). The author was Police Surgeon at Calcutta, and claimed that during 9 years lie observed 8 cases of adipocere-formation in bodies of persons drowned in the Hooghlj^, or buried in damp soil. He states that his observations " show that this condition is more readily formed in the human body in the River Hooghly, as well as in the wet damp soil of Bengal during the rainy season than in Europe. ' Mackenzie
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In the April number of the Gazette for the year 1897, can article appeared by Dr. H. F. Nuttall, headed "Has Adipocere been observed in India?" in which, after detailing the conditions under which it is observed in Europe, he epitomizes Dr. McKenzie's paper on adipocere and remarks: "It remains an open question what it was he observed and called saponification." He also throws out the suggestio...
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