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A CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER BY HEAT–STROKE
Author(s) -
Macpherson R. K.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1976.tb115529.x
Subject(s) - stroke (engine) , sick child , medicine , psychiatry , psychology , pediatrics , mechanical engineering , engineering
In the course of his treatment by a herbalist who had undertaken to cure his disability, a mildly spastic retarded four‐year‐old child was immersed in a heap of fermenting horse manure for 40 minutes. He was unconscious when removed and died two days later despite intensive care in a children's hospital. When medical aid was sought a false history was given and the true nature of the child's illness, heat stroke, was not determined until after death. The herbalist was subsequently convicted of manslaughter.