An Experimental Study on tile Distribution of Planktons in tile Various Organs of the Drowned and the Dead in Water Without Drowning

An accurate ascertainment of drowning has been one of the most important subjects for study of legal medicine and many scholars have concentrated their efforts around this subject. On eonsidering that the grasping of actual distribution of plankton in the various organs of a dead body would play an indispen~. able part in distingui~hjng a drowned body from a body of nondrowning which h~s been deserted in the water, the author has conducted a series of experiments thereon which are outlined bC'1ow