RT Journal
T1 Personal identification: Methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD August 9
VO 73
IS 6
SP 442
OP 442
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610320066031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610320066031
AB Since human beings are not registered regularly by the government—in many places not even at the time of their birth—it is not infrequent for a human being to become lost from his community and, through lack of any means of identification, to disappear as if—in the words of the "Hun"—he had been "sunk without a trace." For many years the chief interest attached to personal identification lay in its relationship to the proving of guilt of those who had violated the law. It has frequently been necessary, however—and is daily becoming more so—to prove identification in connection with such legal problems as inheritance, when death occurs by burning, drowning, or other mutilating causes. In this book the authors consider identification as it is made by all of the various methods thus far known. The work is divided into two parts, describing, first, methods which furnish partial identification, including the more