{"title":"Suicide by injection of snake venom","authors":"Bernard Knight, Andrew Barclay, Roger Mann","doi":"10.1016/0300-9432(77)90107-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An unusual suicide is described where the deceased, a schizophrenic young man in perfect physical health, deliberately injected himself subcutaneously with snake venom, by means of a syringe. The circumstances, autopsy findings and laboratory investigations are recorded.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":75860,"journal":{"name":"Forensic science","volume":"10 2","pages":"Pages 141-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1977-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0300-9432(77)90107-8","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Forensic science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0300943277901078","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
An unusual suicide is described where the deceased, a schizophrenic young man in perfect physical health, deliberately injected himself subcutaneously with snake venom, by means of a syringe. The circumstances, autopsy findings and laboratory investigations are recorded.