Fall 2011
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Forensic chromolithograph of a physician who committed suicide, 1898. That it was a case of suicide was demonstrated by, among other things, the proximity and symmetric disposition of the stab wounds. Plate by Artur Schmitson in Eduard Ritter von Hofmann, Atlas der gerichtlichen Medizin, 1898.
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