Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1434

MATTHIEU JOSEPH BONAVENTURE ORFILA (1787-1853) Traité de exhumations juridiques. Béchet Jeune; Brussels, au Dépôt de la Librairie Médical Française; London, A. Alexandre 1831 Vol. I: [4] 388 pp.; Vol. II: [4] 387 pp., 5 plates (4 col.). 19.6 cm.

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Interested in all aspects of forensic medicine, Orfila here collaborated with Octave Lesueur (1802-1860) in this study of the putrefactive changes produced in cadavers when exposed to earth, water, air, and fumigation. Lesueur was a fellow physician colleague of Orfila's who shared the latter's interest in medico-legal toxicology.