PART III.

_Introduction_—1. _Of Arson—Human Combustion._—2. _Of Rape, with Physiological and Medical Illustrations._—3. _Of Homicide generally._—4. _Of Real and Apparent Death._—5. _Of the Physiological Causes, and Phenomena of Sudden Death._—6. _Of Syncope._—7. _Of Suffocation by Drowning, Hanging, and other causes._—8. _Death by exposure to Cold—Heat—Lightning—Starvation._—9. _Application of the Physiological Facts, established in the preceding chapters, to the general treatment of Asphyxia._—10. _Of the Coroner’s Inquest._—11. _Suicide._—12. _Of Murder generally—by Wounding, or Blows—by Poisoning._—13. _Of Poisons, Chemically, Physiologically, and Pathologically considered._—14. _Of Homicide, by Misadventure or Accident._—15. _A Synopsis of the Objects of Inquiry in Cases of sudden and mysterious Sickness and Death,—Commentary thereon, including practical rules for Dissection._—16. _Abortion and Infanticide—with Physiological Illustrations._—17. _Of Criminal Responsibility, and Pleas in bar of Execution._—18. _Of Punishments._—19. _Postscript._

Medical Jurisprudence.