"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. ...

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...