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Napoleon's death. An inquest

Death and Sudden Death

great value to the student of legal medicine. It is in fact such a book as Coull Mackenzie, if his life had been spared, might have written after long service as Police Surgeon, Calcutta. The volume deals with parts of the subject of forensic medicine which are alwajTs inadequately dealt with in ordinary treatises on legal medicine. The first part deals very fully with the phenomena of death, t...

Sudden death due to the Acetone toxicity

Propanone is a volatile liquid that can be absorbed by ingestion, inhalation, dermal and is distributed throughout the body. In this study, a fatal case involving acetone poisoning, who was worked in the Red Crescent Medical Center is presented. The deceased was found four hours after death. He was a 25-year-old male nurse and not married. There are the history of smoking since four years ago, ...

Duration of death investigations that proceed to inquest in Australia

BACKGROUND Recent government inquiries in several countries have identified the length of time it takes coroners to investigate deaths due to injury and other unnatural causes as a major problem. Delays undermine the integrity of vital statistics and adversely affect the deceased's family and others with interests in coroners' findings. Little is publicly known about the extent, nature and caus...

Deposition at the Adjourned Inquest on Death of Four Firewatchers

THE room had four windows, which could be opened, and(a wall ventilator; on the night of the tragedly the windows were shut. The question was, suppose the gas stove was burnintg, could the men have died from suffocation clue to insufficient ventilation? Io answer this question the following test was devise(l. Two extra stoves, similar pattern to that already there, were to be installed in the f...