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Hindi Opinion Article
The Medico-Legal Case Reported by Hodgkin in 1832
Wilson I. B. Onuigbo*
Medical Foundation & Clinic, 8 Nsukka Lane, Enugu 400001, Nigeria.
- Corresponding Author:
- Wilson I. B. Onuigbo
Medical Foundation & Clinic
8 Nsukka Lane, Enugu 400001, Nigeria
Tel: 08037208680
E-mail: wilson.onuigbo@gmail.com
Received Date: May 02, 2015; Accepted Date: June 15, 2016; Published Date: June 22, 2016
Citation: Onuigbo WIB (2016) The Medico-Legal Case Reported by Hodgkin in 1832. Glob J Nurs Forensic Stud 1: 103. doi: 10.4172/2572-0899.1000103
Copyright: © 2016 Onuigbo WIB. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Case reports of historical vintage are of considerable interest in the medico-legal field. Thus, a previous such case was demonstrated personally concerning a seaman; although he was sentenced, postmortem examination instituted by a lawyer versed in Anatomy was salutary. Therefore, the present case is deemed worthy of extraction from the famous 1832 work of Hodgkin. Indeed, with reference to the postmortem examination, the suspicious appearances of the liver and spleen, which were observed, were led to rest as not being due to violence
