Suicide 104 Of Murder generally 110 1. By exposing a sick or weak person, or infant, to the cold 110 2. By exposing an impotent person abroad, so that he may receive mortal harm 110 3. By Imprisoning a man so strictly that he dies 111 4. By Wounding or Blows 116 _a._ Incised wounds, or cuts 119 _b._ Punctures 120 _c._ Bruises 121 _d._ Lacerations 123 _e._ Gun-shot wounds 124 5. By Poisoning 128 Of Poisons, chemically, physiologically, and pathologically considered 131 Their literary history 131 Of slow, consecutive, and accumulative Poisons 143 1. Of slow Poisons 143 2. Of consecutive Poisons 147 3. Of accumulative Poisoning 148 General remarks on the Medical Evidence required to substantiate an accusation of Poisoning 153 1. Whether all, or most of the symptoms, characteristic of the action of Corrosive and Narcotic Poisons, may not arise from morbid causes of spontaneous origin? 155 2. Whether organic lesions similar to those produced by poisoning, may not occasionally result from natural causes? 162 3. Whether the rapid progress of putrefaction in the body, generally, or in any particular part, is to be considered as affording presumptive evidence, in support of an accusation of poisoning? 182 4. How far the absence of poison, or the inability of the Chemist to detect it, in the body, or in the fluid ejected from it, is to be received as a negative to an accusation of poisoning 182 5. What degree of information can be derived from administering the contents of the stomach of a person supposed to have been poisoned, to dogs, or other animals? 193 On the Classification of Poisons 199 A classification of the different modes by which Poisons produce their effects 207