  CHAPTER I. OF THE RIGHT TO PRACTISE MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Legal CHAPTER II. ACQUIREMENT OF LEGAL RIGHT TO PRACTISE MEDICINE AND SURGERY. CHAPTER III. OF THE CONTRACTUAL RELATION BETWEEN PHYSICIAN AND CHAPTER IV. OF THE LEGAL RIGHT OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS TO RECOVER COMPENSATION FOR SERVICES. CHAPTER V. OF THE PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF PHYSICIANS AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT. PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS. SYNOPSIS OF THE EXISTING STATUTES LEGAL STATUS OF THE DEAD BODY. POWERS AND DUTIES OF CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS. I. The Coroner and his Court. PERSONAL IDENTITY. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. MEDICO-LEGAL DETERMINATION OF THE TIME OF DEATH. SIGNS OF DEATH. WOUNDS. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF WOUNDS. GUNSHOT WOUNDS. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. DEATH BY HEAT AND COLD. TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY. MEDICO-LEGAL RELATIONS OF ELECTRICITY. DEATH BY SUBMERSION OR DROWNING. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. STARVATION. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. —Multiple and antiquate spelling of specialistic words, expecially in French and German, have beed manteined out of consistency and due to the impossibility of determining what the spelling whas at the time this work was composed —The transcriber of this project created the book cover image using the front cover of the original book. The image is placed in the public domain. MEDICAL |
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