CONTENTS. 



PART FIRST. 



THE METHOD OF MAKING POST-MOBTEM EXAMINATIONS; 

 THE LESIONS IN CEETAIN FOEMS OF DEATH FKOM VIO- 

 LENCE AND SUDDEN DEATH; AND THE METHODS OF 

 PEESEEVING AND EXAMINING PATHOLOGICAL TISSUES. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE METHOD OP MAKING POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS, 3. General considerations, 

 8. External inspection, 4. Internal examination, 8. The head, 9. The spinal 

 cord, 17. The thorax and abdomen, 19. The closure of the body, 36. Bacterial 

 examination of post-mortem specimens, 37. Autopsies in medico-legal cases, 37. 

 Autopsies in cases of suspected poisoning, 38. Examination of bodies of new-born 

 children, 39. 



CHAPTER II. 



THE LESIONS IN CERTAIN FORMS OF DKATH FROM VIOLENCE; SUDDEN DEATH, 43. 

 Suffocation; Asphyxia, 43. Death from strangulation; Hanging, 44. Death from 

 drowning, 45. Death from electricity, 47. Death from burning; Sudden death, 

 48. 



CHAPTER III. 



GENERAL METHODS OF PRESERVING PATHOLOGICAL SPECIMENS AND PREPARING 

 THEM FOR STUDY, 50. The study of fresh tissues; Rapid fixation and frozen sec- 

 tions, 50. Fixation, hardening, and preservation, 51. Decalcifying; Embedding 

 and section cutting, 54. Methods of staining, 58. Methods of preserving speci- 

 mens for gross demonstration and for museums, 60. The importance of careful 

 fixation and preservation, 61. 



PART SECOND. 



GENEEAL PATHOLOGY. 



INTRODUCTION, 65. 



CHAPTER I. 



CHANGES IN THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD; Hyperaemia and anaemia; Haemorrhage 

 and transudation, 69. Thrombosis and embolism, 72. 



CHAPTER II. 



ATROPHY, DEGENERATION, PIGMENTATION, AND NECROSIS, 78. General considerations ; 

 Atrophy, 78. Degeneration, 79. Pigmentation, 87. Necrosis, 89. 



