Medicine,Science and the Law

Levels of vitreous potassium were studied in 135 routine post-mortem cases. A rise in the potassium level was found but it could not be correlated with sufficient consistency with the post-mortem interval to make this an accurate method of estimating the time of death.

Salicylamide, after ingestion, could be extracted as such by ether from acidified urine. Salicyluric acid was not produced as a metabolite of this compound. Some diagnostic chemical characteristics of salicylamide are described.