"A Handbook of the Practice of Forensic Medicine Volume 2: Thanatological Division" by Johann Ludwig Casper, translated from the third German edition by George William Balfour, M.D., St. Andrews, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, published by The New Sydenham Society, London, 1862, First Edition, First Print with mdccclxii on the bottom of the title page. [note: the second printing is marked 'Second Edition' on the title page].

This volume consists of 8 Chapters and one Supplement. Each chapter discusses appearance, anatomical investigation, dissection, diagnosis, identification- suicide or homicide; experiments, illustrative cases:

1-- Death from hemorrhage and exhaustion
2-- Death from starvation
3-- Death from poisoning
4-- Death from suffocation
5-- Death by hanging, throttling, and strangling
6-- Death from drowning
7-- Death from Cold
8-- Death from chloroform. (Anesthetics.)

SUPPLEMENT:
Upon injury and death, said to be caused by unscientific medical procedure.-- Malapraxis.

Johann Ludwig Casper (1796-1864) was German forensic scientist, criminologist, pathologist, pediatrician, pharmacologist, professor and author. In 1822. he became a professor at the Medicinal College of the Province of Brandenburg and, in 1824, a private docent at a medical facility. His primary interests were pathology and pediatrics. Casper joined the Scientific Deputation a decade later.
In 1839, he became a professor at the Medicina Forensis and Publica and then the director of an educational institution for forensic medicine in 1841. In 1852, Casper published "Uber Nothzucht und Paederastie und deren Ermittlung Seitens des Gerichtsarztes." In 1858, he proposed a consistent ratio of the time taken for a body to putrefy in different substances -- 1:2:8 in air, water and earth. This would later be known as Casper's Dictum.

George William Balfour (1823-1903) was a Scottish physician. Balfour specialized in diseases of the heart and circulation, and became a leading figure of his time in this area together with Sir William Tennant Gairdner in Glasgow, and Charles Hilton Fagge in London. He was librarian to the College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1873 to 1882 and from 1887 to 1899. He was president of the college 1882-84, and was a member of the University Court of St. Andrews for many years. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. at Edinburgh in 1884, and at St. Andrews in 1896. He was appointed physician in ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1900 and honorary physician to King Edward VII in 1901.

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Hard boards, original embossed cloth with gold lettering on spine and gold profile on the front board [a few spine damages and repairs, some wear: see photos]; 5.3/4” x 8.3/4”; bright-ocher color endpapers [a little soiling, slightly creased at the hinges] 332 pages [ink stamp & written numbers on title page], very good condition.