Medico-Legal Consideration of Wounds. G. WOOLSEY, 457 Medico-Legal Consideration of Gunshot Wounds. ROSWELL PARK, 591 Death by Heat and Cold. E. V. STODDARD, 627 Medico-Legal Relations of Electricity. W. N. BULLARD, 661 Medico-Legal Consideration of Death by Mechanical Suffocation. D. S. LAMB, 705 Death from Submersion or Drowning. J. C. ROSSE, 793 Death from Starvation. E. V. STODDARD, 813 INTRODUCTION. THE terms FORENSIC MEDICINE, LEGAL MEDICINE, and MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE have heretofore been used interchangeably to apply to those branches of state medicine and of jurisprudence which have to deal with the applications of medical knowledge to the elucidation of questions of fact in courts of law, and with the legal regulation of the practice of medicine. MEDICO-LEGAL SCIENCE therefore includes all subjects concerning which members of the legal and medical professions may seek information of one another, each acting in his professional capacity. It consists of two distinct branches: that treating of medical law, to which the designation of MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE properly applies; and that relating to the application of medical, surgical, or obstetrical knowledge to the purposes of legal trials, FORENSIC MEDICINE.[1] The term STATE MEDICINE, which is sometimes erroneously used as synonymous with forensic medicine, properly applies to a more extended field of medical inquiry; _i.e._, to all applications of medical knowledge to the public welfare. State medicine, therefore, while excluding medical jurisprudence, includes, besides forensic medicine, public hygiene, medical ethics, medical education, and military and naval medicine. TOXICOLOGY, the science of poisons, may be divided into _medical toxicology_, whose object is the prevention or cure of all forms of poisoning, and _forensic toxicology_, whose aim is the detection of criminal poisoning. In its last-named relation toxicology differs from forensic medicine in one important particular. In all cases other than those of poisoning in which questions involving medical knowledge arise, the answers are entirely within the functions of the physician, the surgeon, or the obstetrician, but the problems of forensic toxicology require for their solution the further aid of the chemist and the pharmacologist.