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Title: Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Author: W. G. Aitchison Robertson

Release Date: August 10, 2006 [EBook #19019]

Language: English

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AIDS

TO

FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

BY

W.G. AITCHISON ROBERTSON

M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P.E.

LECTURER ON FORENSIC MEDICINE, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, EDINBURGH; LATE
EXAMINER IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF EDINBURGH AND ST. ANDREWS; FOR THE
TRIPLE BOARD; DIPLOMA IN PUBLIC HEALTH, ETC.

NINTH EDITION

TWENTIETH THOUSAND

LONDON

BAILLIERE, TINDALL AND COX

8, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN

1922

PREFACE TO NINTH EDITION

I trust that, having thoroughly revised the "Aids to Forensic Medicine,"
it may prove as useful to students preparing for examination in the
future as it has been in the past.

W.G. AITCHISON ROBERTSON.

SURGEONS' HALL,
EDINBURGH,
_November_, 1921.

PREFACE TO EIGHTH EDITION

This work of the late Dr. William Murrell having met with such a large
measure of success, the publishers thought it would be well to bring out
a new edition, and invited me to revise the last impression.

This I have done, and while retaining Dr. Murrell's text closely, I have
made large additions, in order to bring the "Aids" up to present
requirements. I have also rearranged the matter with the object of
making the various sections more consecutive than they were previously.

W.G. AITCHISON ROBERTSON.

SURGEONS' HALL,
EDINBURGH,
_June_, 1914.

CONTENTS

PART I

FORENSIC MEDICINE

PAGE

I. Crimes 1
II. Medical Evidence 2
III. Personal Identity