Medico-legal section : Medico-Legal aspects of the Wolkersdorfer case

An account is given of a medico-legal examination of the charred remains of a body found in a burnt-out motor car. The age, sex, stature and race were determined by the use of principles ordinarily applied in anthropological investigations. The personal identity of the deceased was established to a...

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Published inSouth African medical journal Vol. 22; no. 17; pp. 543 - 549
Main Author Gordon, I. & Drennan, M.R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG) 01.09.1948
Subjects
Anatomy
Autopsy
Forensic pathology
Identification of remains
Medico-legal
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Summary:An account is given of a medico-legal examination of the charred remains of a body found in a burnt-out motor car. The age, sex, stature and race were determined by the use of principles ordinarily applied in anthropological investigations. The personal identity of the deceased was established to a considerable degree of probability by a technique of comparing life-sized machine-made projection drawings of the skull with drawings of life-sized enlargements of snapshots of the deceased. In determining the cause of death reference is made to the features distinguishing thermal fractures from traumatic fractures of the skull.
ISSN:0256-9574
2078-5135