FORM OF MEDICAL REPORT (_Date._)      (_Place of Examination._) (_Names of those who can speak to the Identity of the Body._) I. MINUTE OF THE EXAMINATION 1. External Inspection 1. General Condition of the Body.--(_a_) _Well or ill nourished._ (_b_) _General colour._ (_c_) _Marks and scars._ (_d_) _Products of disease--Ulcers, hernia, &c._ (_e_) _Injuries._ Caution.--There may be no external marks of injury, and yet death may be due to violence. Extreme difficulty in deciding if injury be inflicted before or after death. 2. Height.--_Determined by measurement._ 3. Age.--_This can only be approximately guessed._ 4. Sex.--_This is, of course, only difficult when putrefaction is far advanced. Hair found only on the_ MONS VENERIS or PUBES _is characteristic of the female, but if it extend upwards on the abdomen, equally so of the male. No sex can be distinguished in the embryo before the third month of intra-uterine life._ 5. Colour of the Eyes.--_Difficult of determination._ Why? (_a_) _Disagreement of observers._ (_b_) _Presence of putrefaction._ 6. Colour of the Hair.--_This is necessary, in order to compare hair of deceased with that found on suspected party._ 7. Position of the Tongue.--_Normal or abnormal, injured or uninjured._ 8. Condition and Number of the Teeth.--(_a_) _Complete._ (_b_) _Incomplete._ (_c_) _Any peculiarity as regards size or form, in order to compare with mark or bite on suspected party, &c._ 9. Signs of Death.--_Presence or absence of the_ rigor mortis _or supervening putrefaction_. 10. Condition and Contents of the Hands and Nails.--(_a_) _In the drowned: weeds, sand, and signs of long immersion._ (_b_) _In those shot: scorching or blackening of the hand from powder, or injury from recoil of the weapon._ _Is the weapon grasped firmly in the hand?_ _Cadaveric spasm?_ _Cadaveric rigidity?_ 11. Condition of the Natural Openings of the Body--Nose, Mouth, &c.--(_a_) _Presence of sand or weeds in mouth of those found in the water._ (_b_) _Presence of marks of corrosive poisons._ (_c_) _Presence or absence of the signs of virginity, or of recent injury about the parts._ 12. Condition of the Neck.--(_a_) _Presence of marks of strangulation._ (_b_) _Condition of the upper cervical vertebræ._ (_c_) _Dangers to be avoided in determining the fracture or dislocation of the cervical vertebræ. Great mobility of neck, sometimes present, not due to injury of the bone._ 2. Internal Inspection _A. Cranial Cavity._ 1. Condition of the bones of the skull.