[Medico-legal aspects of food poisoning].

[Medico-legal problems posed by a fatal poisoning after accidental ingestion of nitrobenzene].

An analysis of 3105 Medico Legal Cases at Tertiary Care Hospital, Rawalpindi

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Medico legal cases are essential component of medical practice and comprise most important constituent of emergencies. The reporting of such cases is imperative to recognize theirsocioeconomic burden on any country. The present study was conducted to scrutinize different categories of medico legal cases and characteristics of the victims at casualty department oftertia...

Medico-Legal Implications of Traumatic Fatalities Related to Animal Husbandry

Blunt or penetrating lesions and crush asphyxia resulting from attacks by large animals, and poisoning by or an anaphylactic reaction to hymenoptera stings, are a significant cause of death in agricultural occupations. Medico-legal investigations should accurately evaluate the scene of death, the related circumstances and the autopsy evidence in order to reconstruct the dynamics of the fatal ev...

The Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence

from lightning and electricity, on starvation, on asphyxial deaths, on suicide, lunacy and lifeassurance are all most complete and thorough expositions of the subject. The second volume opens with a masterly discussion of 322 pages, on all questions of sexual medical jurisprudence, and following this are some 500 more pages on toxicology. It is hard to say which are the best parts of this work,...

On a Case of Poisoning by Corrosive Sublimate

ance to the action of the poison. According to him, salivation and even death may occur from the smallest doses of mercury. Every general practitioner must acknowledge the numerous idiosyncrasies that meet him in the prescribing of any mercurial preparation. Hence it is reasonable to suppose that the poisonous dose must in like manner vary considerably. In our own city Dr Littlejohn informs me ...