and its Preparations 116
XXV. Copper and its Preparations 117
XXVI. Zinc, Silver, Bismuth, and Chromium 118
XXVII. Gaseous Poisons 120
XXVIII. Vegetable Irritants 123
XXIX. Opium and Morphine 124
XXX. Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, and Stramonium 127
XXXI. Cocaine 128
XXXII. Camphor 129
XXXIII. Tetrachlorethane 129
XXXIV. Alcohol, Ether, and Chloroform 130
XXXV. Chloral Hydrate 134
XXXVI. Petroleum and Paraffin Oil 134
XXXVII. Antipyrine, Antefebrin, Phenacetin, and Aniline 135
XXXVIII. Sulphonal, Trional, Tetronal, Veronal, Paraldehyde 137
XXXIX. Conium and Calabar Bean 138
XL. Tobacco and Lobelia 139
XLI. Hydrocyanic Acid 140
XLII. Aconite 143
XLIII. Digitalis 144
XLIV. Nux Vomica, Strychnine, and Brucine 145
XLV. Cantharides 146
XLVI. Abortifacients 147
XLVII. Poisonous Fungi and Toxic Foods 148
XLVIII. Ptomaines or Cadaveric Alkaloids 150

Index 152

AIDS TO FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

PART I

FORENSIC MEDICINE

I.--CRIMES

Forensic medicine is also called Medical Jurisprudence or Legal
Medicine, and includes all questions which bring medical matters into
relation with the law. It deals, therefore, with (1) crimes and (2)
civil injuries.

1. A _crime_ is the voluntary act of a person of sound mind harmful to
others and also unjust. No act is a crime unless it is plainly forbidden
by law. To constitute a crime, two circumstances are necessary to be
proved--(a) that the act has bee