Author: Michigan State Homeopathic Society
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-12-19
Total Pages: 802
ISBN-13: 9781334669033
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Excerpt from The Medical Counselor and Michigan Journal of Homoeopathy, 1886, Vol. 11 A diagram of the room or more immediate surroundings of the body, or bodies, if there be more than one. Their relation ship to each other and the surroundings, with lines running from body to objects and distances marked on them, may be of great aid to the examiner in court. The position of weapons which seem to have been used, blood stains'and vomited mat ters must not be omitted. If blood seemed to have simply run out of the wound, as in venous bleeding, or was thrown in jets, mention the fact and the course from which it came. It is best at this point to take account of weapons found which seem to have been used in causing death; these must be described and placed in the hands of proper officers, and the fact noted. I advise you in all cases to preserve the weapons by which a homicide or supposed suicide was caused, if there is the least doubt of its being the subject of a trial in court.' The diagram will refresh your memories, and the actual exhibition of an ax, pistol or knife, will save you much tedious detail. The judge will always allow you to refer to notes or diagram, to secure ac curacy, if they were taken on the spot while conducting the ex amination. You may not use a diagram taken from a news paper or other source, however accurate, unless all parties con sent to its introduction as evidence, and allow you to use it. Your diagram is your own, like the notes, and cannot be excluded by either side in a trial. These facts are the basis of your opinion as to position of person when struck down, direction from which the assault came, etc. Much now depends on the fact of identity; if the person is well known to all, this may be left to the common evi dence in the case, and no attention need be given to it during the autopsy. In cases where there is lack of identity, everything that is calculated to throw the least light on this must be col lected and noted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
