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Sourcebook in Forensic Serology, Immunology, and Biochemistry - Unit IX - Translations of Selected Contributions to the Original Literature of Medicolegal Examinations of Blood and Body Fluids

NCJ Number
92422
Editor(s)
R E Gaensslen
Date Published
1983
Length
270 pages
Annotation
This work contains 50 translated papers arranged in 4 sections, originally published between 1827 and 1953.
Abstract
The first section, on identification of blood, consists of 16 papers (beginning with the early work of Orfila) on using chemical means to identify blood and differentiating between rust, bloodstains, and other stains in resolving the medicolegal matter of wounds. Papers by C. Mandl, Charles Robin and A. Salmon, L. Teichmann, and others are included in this section. The section on body fluids has 10 papers, mainly dealing with the detection of semen by miscroscopy and stains, the crystal test of Florence, and Lundquist's acid phosphatase test. The next section, focusing on determination of species of origin, has 16 papers dealing with the applications of immunology in forensic serology. The last section has eight papers on medicolegal applications of blood grouping. Notable among the writers in this section are Leone Lattes and Franz Josef Holzer. Tables, footnotes, references, and photographs are provided.