An Essay on the Signs of Murder in New Born ChildrenLongman, 1813 - 114 pages |
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abdomen Additional Note adults afford Alberti appearance arteries ascertain attention authors blood vessels body Bohn bones born alive breathed bronchi cause of death cavity child murder circulation circumstances colour compression conclude crime criminal dead delivery died of hemorrhage dissection dura mater ecchymosis empty examination expelled experiments external violence extravasation fact fatal float fluid foetus fontanell forensic medicine head heart Heister honour human Infanticide injuries integuments Lancaster Lastly ligature lived after birth livid loss of blood lungs Mahon marks meconium medico-legal decision membranes ment Midwifery mother mouth mucus natural necessary neck new-born child new-born children new-born infant observed occur opinion placenta pregnancy probably produce proof prove putre putrefaction putrid quantity racter remarks render respiration Roederer rupture signs of murder sink sometimes specific gravity suffocation supposed taken place thorax tion trachea Translator umbilical cord umbilical vessels umbilicus uterine uterus veins viscus weight whilst woman wounds
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Page vii - Likewise, however it be accounted for, the criminal commerce of the sexes corrupts and depraves the mind and moral character more than any single species of vice whatsoever. That ready perception of guilt, that prompt and decisive resolution against it, which constitutes a virtuous character, is seldom found in persons addicted to these indulgences. They prepare an easy admission for every sin that seeks it; are, in low life, usually the first stage in men's progress to the most desperate villanies;...
Page x - Honour being constituted by men occupied in the pursuit of pleasure, and for the mutual conveniency of such men, will be found, as might be expected from the character and design of the law-makers, to be, in most instances, favourable to the licentious indulgence of the natural passions, Thus it allows of fornication, adultery, drunkenness, prodigality, duelling, and of revenge in the extreme ; and lays no stress upon the virtues opposite to these.
Page xx - A child will commonly breathe as soon as its mouth is born or protruded from the mother; and, in that case, may lose its life before its body be born, especially when there happens to be a considerable interval between what we may call the birth of the child's head and the protrusion of its body.
Page x - ... want of charity to the poor, injuries done to tradesmen, by insolvency or delay of payment, with numberless examples of the same kind, are accounted no breaches of honour ; because a man is not a less agreeable companion for these vices, nor the worse to deal with, in those concerns which are usually transacted between one gentleman and another.
Page xiii - Wales, where the father and son were both hanged in one cart, but the son was supposed to have survived the father, by appearing to struggle longest; whereby he became seised of an estate in fee by survivorship, in consequence of which seisin his widow had a verdict for her dower.
Page viii - subdue his own feelings, he might escape, though " not the censure, at least the chastisement of the " laws ; and the Roman Empire was stained with the " blood of infants, till such murders were included, " by Valentinian and his colleagues, in the letter " and spirit of the Cornelian law.
Page viii - ... at least the chastisement, of the laws; and the Roman empire was stained with the blood of infants, till such murders were included by Valentinian and his colleagues in the letter and spirit of the Cornelian law. The lessons of jurisprudence...
Page 59 - ... is in horny plates, and even forms warty or spinous projections. Hence a great number of subordinate varieties of ichthyosis have been recognized, ichthyosis simplex, cornea, hystrix, etc., which, however, are not varieties in kind, but merely in the degree of the disease. Certain parts of the body, the face, the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, the armpits, and the bends of the knees and elbows, are not attacked by the affection, while its favorite seat is upon the dorsal surface of...
Page viii - But the exposition of children was the prevailing and stubborn vice of antiquity: it was sometimes prescribed, often permitted, almost always practised with impunity by the nations who never entertained the Roman ideas of paternal power; and the dramatic poets who appeal to the human heart represent with indifference a popular custom which was palliated by the motives of economy and compassion.
Page xxi - I shall sustain this argument by the opinions of one or two writers, distinguished for their extensive experience, as well as practical sagacity. In a case of this kind, Burns directs that we should "attend to the head, examining that the membranes do not cover the mouth, but that the child be enabled to breathe, should the circulation in the cord be obstructed. There is no danger in dtluy, and rashly pulling away the child is apt to produce flooding, and other dangerous accidents.