3. The lungs may float, in consequence of putrefaction 116 The cranial cavity 121 C. The character of the spot on which the body was found 122 II. Whether, supposing the child to have been alive, its death was the result of natural causes, of wilful violence, or of negligence and abandonment? 122 Death by omission 123 A new-born child may perish by exposure to cold 127 Death by commission 127 Of Criminal Responsibility, and Pleas in bar of Execution 131 Of Punishments 147 Postscript 153 APPENDIX. PART I. Statute 9 _Hen._ 5 1 Lordinance encontre les entremettours de fysyk et de Surgerie 3 Statute 3 _Hen._ 8, _c._ 11. An act for the appointing of Physicians and Surgeons 3 Statute 5 _Hen._ 8, _c._ 6. An act concerning Surgeons to be discharged of Quests and other things 5 Statute 14 and 15 _Hen._ 8, _c._ 5. The privileges and authority of Physicians in London 7 The Charter of Incorporation 7 32 _Hen._ 8, _c._ 40. For Physicians and their privilege 14 Statute 32 _Hen._ 8, _c._ 42. For Barbers and Surgeons 17 34 and 35 _Hen._ 8, _c._ 8. A bill that no common Surgeons, may minister medicines notwithstanding the Statute 23 1 _Mary_, _c._ 9. An act touching the Corporation of the Physicians in London 25 6 and 7 _Will._ 3, _c._ 4. An act for exempting Apothecaries from serving the offices of constable, scavenger, and other parish and ward offices, and from serving upon juries 27 Continued by 1 _Ann_, st. 1, _c._ 11 27 Made perpetual by 9 _Geo._ 1, _c._ 8, § 1 29