1st Edition
Anatomy and Dissection in Nineteenth-Century Britain Volume III: Investigating Death
Volume III: Investigating Death
Volume III - Introduction
Part 1: The Signs of Death
1. John Galt, ‘The Buried Alive’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 10 (1821): 262–4.
2. Charles Dickens, ‘The Black Veil’ (1836).
3. Alfred Swayne Taylor, ‘Real and Apparent Death’, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (London: Deacon, George Yard, 1843), 62–98.
4. John Abercrombie, ‘The Early Signs of Death’, in The Student’s Guide to Medical Jurisprudence (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1885). 8–22.
Part 2: The Rise of Medical Jurisprudence
5. William Hunter, On the Uncertainty of the Signs of Murder in Case of Bastard Children [1783] (London: J. Callow, 1818).
6. Alfred Swayne Taylor, ‘Introduction’, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (London: Deacon, George Yard, 1843), 1–29.
Part 3: Coroners’ Inquests
7. The 1836 Medical Witnesses Act
8. Thomas Wakley, Editorial, ‘Medical Witnesses’ Act’, The Lancet (18 Dec. 1841): 409–13
9. Thomas Wakley, Editorial, ‘Objects of the Coroner’s Office’, The Lancet (12 Nov. 1842): 259–62.
10. [Anon], ‘A Coroner’s Inquest’, Household Words 1 (1850): 109–13.
11. Charles Dickens, ‘Some Recollections of Mortality’ [1860], The Uncommercial Traveller (1861).
12. Charles Dickens, ‘Our Dear Brother’, Bleak House (1853).
Part 4: Medical Coroners
13. George Rogerson, A Letter to the Reform Corporations on the Necessity of Electing Medical Coroners (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman; Liverpool: Marples, 1836).
14. ‘Meeting of the Freeholders of Middlesex in support of Mr. Wakley, as coroner for Middlesex’, The Lancet 14/365 (28 August 1830): 867–76
15. Thomas Wakley, Editorial, The Lancet 33/844 (2 Nov. 1839): 205–13.
Part 5: Secret Poisoning
16. Robert Christison, ‘Preface to the First Edition’, in A Treatise on Poisons, in relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic [1829], 3rd edn (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1836), v–xx.
17. [Alfred Swayne Taylor], Editorial, ‘On the Increase of Secret Poisoning in this Country’, London Medical Gazette (Jan. 15, 1847): 105–108.
18. [Alfred Swayne Taylor], Editorial, ‘On the Increase of the Crime of Secret Poisoning’, London Medical Gazette (Jan. 29, 1847): 191–4.
19. [Anon.], ‘The Mistakes of Coroners Corrected by Magistrates.—Encouragement of Secret Poisoning’, London Medical Gazette (Jan. 29, 1847): 217–18.
20. [Anon.], ‘Secret Poisoning’, The Pharmaceutical Journal 9.5 (Nov., 1st, 1849): 201.
21. [Anon.], ‘Poisoning in England’, The Saturday Review (Dec. 22, 1855): 134–5.
22. Alfred Swayne Taylor, On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine (London: John Churchill, 1848), 99–142.
Part 6: The Penge Mystery
23. Editorial, ‘The Medical Evidence in the Penge Case’, The Lancet (29 Sept. 1877): 468–9.
24. Editorial, The Lancet (20 Oct. 1877): 579–81.
25. ‘Professor Virchow on the Penge Case’, London Medical Gazette, 17 Nov. 1877): 543–44.
Part 7: Forensic Medicine
26. Douglas Maclagan, ‘Address in Forensic Medicine’, The British Medical Journal, 2/920 (Aug. 17, 1878): 233–9.
27. Rudolph Virchow, ‘Introduction’, A Description and Explanation of the Method of Performing Post-mortem examinations, transl. from the second German edn by Dr. T.P. Smith (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1880), 1–43.
28. Rudolph Virchow, ‘Regulations for the Guidance of Medical Jurists’, in A Description and Explanation of the Method of Performing Post-mortem examinations, transl. from the second German edn by Dr. T.P. Smith (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1880), 102–24.
29. John Abercrombie, ‘Introduction, in The Student’s Guide to Medical Jurisprudence (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1885), 1–6.
Part 8: Forensic Medicine and Literature
30. Wilkie Collins, ‘The Purple Flask’, Book the Last, Armadale (1864).
31. Wilkie Collins, Chapter XXV, I Say No (1884).
32. Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter 1, ‘A Study in Scarlet’ (1887).
33. Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Cardboard Box’ (1893).
34. Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Norwood Builder’ (1903)
Index
Biography
Laurence Talairach is professor of English at Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier. Her publications include Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764–1897 (2019) and Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (2009).
