title: [Medicolegal aspects of poisoning (author's transl)].
abstract: 8679 post mortem dissections have been performed in the Institute during the rescent 25 years; 563 of them have been cases of poisoning (=6.5% of totality). They were grouped for the years 1950--1965 and 1966--1975. Suicidal poisoning showed an increasing, poisoning in children a decreasing tendency during the last 25 years. Suicides were mainly performed with hypnotics. Carbon monoxide poisoning dominated in the group of accidental poisoning.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001317:Austria; D002648:Child; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D011041:Poisoning / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013405:Suicide
vernacular_title: Vergiftungen aus gerichtsmedizinischer Sicht.