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Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Eduard Von Hofmann's Atlas of legal medicine

















carbonic-oxid poisoning (charcoal-fumes)


















murder produced with a fascine-knife


















murder - the result of various injuries inflicted with different instruments
















punctured-incised wounds of the left hand received in self-defence


















suffocation by a portion of the membranes
















suicide by hanging with a double rope
















suicide by cutting the throat
















agonal injuries of the face
















burns produced by flames
















Murder or suicide by burning


















child  pierced with a pointed conical instrument


















infant skull


















suicide through stabbing


















larvae of flies in the angles of the eyelids and mouth













From: Eduard von Hofmann: Atlas of legal medicine (or. Atlas der gerichtlichen Medizin), 1898





"The colored plates and the photographic reproductions have been very ably executed by Mr. A. Schmitson." - Author's pref