Blood-Stains: Their Detection, and the Determination of Their Source: A Manual for the Medical and Legal Professions

Excerpt from Blood-Stains: Their Detection, and the Determination of Their Source: A Manual for the Medical and Legal ProfessionsAS there does not exist in any language of which I have knowledge a compendium Of the modern tests by which the detection of blood-stains and the determination of their source may be carried out, I have endeavoured to supply this want by putting at the disposal of the Medical Profession, the Bench, and the Bar a full account of these tests. I have at the same time traced the rise Of the jurisprudence Of blood-stains, for the Older tests are valuable in that they Show that in the path that leads to truth there are many pitfalls, into which not a few in their eager haste to reach the goal have fallen, and which it is well to mark.TO the reader - especially the non-medical reader - Of too many Of the text-books Of legal medicine that have appeared in the English language, the impression conveyed by their perusal must be that by chemical means alone, without the aid Of spectroscope or microscope, it is easy enough to determine whether a given stain is or is not due to blood; and that it is wellnigh impossible, with the aid Of all means at our command, to say whether this blood has been shed by man or by another mammal. That the real state Of affairs is not quite this I believe that I have shown.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.