Fatal Evidence · Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor & the Dawn of Forensic Science (2017) by Barrell, Helen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Medical jurisprudence The Old Bailey Inquests The Crown

Introduction Chapter 1 - Go Thy Way, Passenger 1806-31

Take notice, roguelings ‘Physiologist Taylor’ Unrecognised by any The peace and happiness of society The Hags of Rhubarb Hall

Chapter 2 - More of Impulse than Discrétion 1831-33

The cultivation of the science The imprudent pursuit The extraordinary investigation

Chapter 3 - Fearful and Wonderful 1834-38

My beloved is mine, and I am his For man walketh in a vain shadow This beautiful method of analysis

Chapter 4 - The Light of an English Sun 1839-41

Drawings of shadows A snapshot So frequent in the présent day What do people expect to find?

Chapter 5 - One of the Most Eminent Men 1842-45

His celebrity as a chemist We warmly recommend Mr Taylor’s treatise Does arsenic float on tea?

Chapter 6 - My Heart is as Hard as a Stone 1845

The occasional leisure of four years I can’t confess what I’ve never done God’s lightning What a paradox does such conduct exhibit Those short and easy roads to knowledge What the tapeworm saw An entire stranger to this neighbourhood For he’s a jolly good fellow

Chapter 7 - The Means of our Préservation 1846-47

The dreams of false philosophy Obvious to the most ignorant person The Essex Lucretia Borgia?

Chapter 8 - The Only Friend I had in the World 1848

All he knew about the matter I never hurt a hair on his head Roughly made as by a cottager The horrors of the modern school of French novelists For the security of society

Chapter 9 - The Formidable Scourge 1849-50

Vapours Silent cross-examination Even the centre of the heart The omnipotence of stenches I thought the prisoner was joking It made his teeth shake In such small quantities The diabolical art

Chapter 10 - His Very High Position 1850-54

The belle of the village ‘Lafarged’ A new poison No safety for mankind Alfred Swaine Taylor, MD You are not going to poison me Persecuted and slandered to the death Change of address Legal poisonings? That able analyst

Chapter 11 - Romantic, Mysterious, and Singular 1854-55

A tremendous explosion The Mysterious Poisoning at Finchley Poison is there Excited by drink

Chapter 12 - Enter Not into the Path of the Wicked 1855-57

Mysterious death of a sporting gentleman A horror of bad smells Oh, doctor, I shall die Beware how you belie the dead I have known 500 deaths from poisoning Poisoned by gin? Of interest to the public Scant justice to the prisoner Hooted and hissed The lives of sixteen millions of people A bitter taste

Chapter 13 - Truth Will Always Go the Farthest 1856-57

A very clumsy murder The Waterloo Bridge Mystery

Chapter 14 - Grieved Beyond all Endurance 1857-59

Deadly wallpaper Broadly put forth Some influence or terror Analysts of repute Silver with the hue of crime

Chapter 15 - You are the Villain 1860-62

Spare no labour Witchcraft at Wimbledon The greatest criminal that ever lived

Chapter 16 - Blood Enough 1863-70

Masters of the science The Dead House This unhappy young woman The first railway murder A wedding Seeing something done Rare qualities as a compiler A test for blood? Sweet Fanny Adams Eminent Medical Men Scandai Chapter 17 - The Eminent Opinion of Professor Taylor 1870-80

An unretiring retirement The West Haddon Tragedy Destruction in every room On Poisons All our days are gone Though men be strong Take thy plague away from me The most famous name I dabble with poisons The obsolète Taylor The back doors to death The deceptive moon The ancestor

Timeline Acknowledgements Further Reading Selected Bibliography Notes Index