Paper II FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY 2010 to 2015 Question Paper Dr. MGR University

Dr. MGR University August 2010 Question Paper
Subject : Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

[KX 1236] Sub. Code: 1236
SECOND B.H.M.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION.
(Regulations 2004-2005 onwards)
(Pattern – 5)
Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY
Q.P. Code : 581236
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Draw neat diagram wherever necessary.
Answer ALL questions.
I. Essay Questions: (2 x 15 = 30)
 1. Write an essay on the structure and functions of Central Council of Homoeopathy.
 2. Classify poisons. Write briefly on signs and symptoms, fatal dose, fatal period,
 Postmortem appearances, treatment of poisoning by mineral acids.
II. Short Notes : (10 x 5 = 50)
 1. Abrasions.
 2. Section 320 IPC.
 3. Management of snake bite.
 4. Workmen’s Compensation Act 1923.
 5. Rights of a registered medical practitioner.
 6. Differences between wound of entry and exit of a bullet.
 7. Klinefelter’s syndrome.
 8. Types of Skull fractures.
 9. SIDS.
10. Starvation-Postmortem findings.
III. Short Answers: (10 x 2 = 20)
 1. Perjury.
 2. Professional death sentence.
 3. Age at which
 (a) Anterior fonteanelle closes.
 (b) First permanent teeth erupts.
 4. In which poisoning do you see
 (a) Burtonian line.
 (b) Aldrich mee’s lines.
 5. Match the following:
 (a) Brucine - (i) Datura
 (b) Atropine - (ii) Poppy
 (c) Rosagenin - (iii) Nux vomica
 (d) Codine - (iv) Oleander.
 6. Judicial Hanging.
 7. Define ‘Medical Ethics’.
 8. Atavism.
 9. Medico legal importance of age 21, 14, 18.
10. Smell of gastric contents in
 (a) Phosphorous poisoning.
 (b) Cyanide poisoning.
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Dr. MGR University August 2011 Question Paper
Subject : Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

[KZ 1236] Sub. Code : 1236
SECOND B.H.M.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION
Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY
Q.P. Code : 581236
Time : Three hours Maximum: 100 Marks
Answer ALL questions.
I. Essay Questions (2 x 15 = 30)
 1. Define injury. Classify injuries. Write in detail about lacerations.
 2. Classify poisons with examples for each. Write in detail about the signs and
 symptoms and treatment of sulphuric acid poisoning.
II. Short Notes (10 x 5 = 50)
1. Magistrate’s Inquest
2. Rule of nine
3. Presumptive signs of pregnancy
4. Differences between post mortem staining and bruise
5. Civil negligence
6. Medicolegal importance of ages-7, 14, 16.18 and 21
7. Antidotes
8. Features of ‘close shot’ bullet wound
9. Diatoms and their medico legal importance
 10.Objectives of medicolegal autopsy
III. Short Answers (10 x 2 = 20)
 1. Barr body
 2. Aldrich - Mee’s lines
 3. Conduct money
 4. Lucid interval
 5. Opisthotonus
 6. a. Section 319 IPC b. Section 300 IPC
 7. Incest
 8. Majoon
 9. Whiplash injury
 10. Burtonian line
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Dr. MGR University February 2012 Question Paper
Subject : Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

[LA 1236] Sub. Code: 1236
SECOND B.H.M.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION
PAPER II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY
Q .P .Code: 581236
Time: Three hours Maximum: 100 Marks
Answer ALL questions
I. Elaborate on: (2 x 15 = 30)
1. What are the post mortem changes in the body? Write in detail about rigor mortis.
2. Write an essay on Carbon monoxide poisoning
II. Write notes on: (10 x 5 = 50)
1. Dying declaration
2. Vicarious liability
3. Coup and contrecoup injuries
4. Abrasions
5. Battered baby syndrome
6. Medical termination of pregnancy Act 1971
7. Gastric lavage
8. Differences between strychnine poisoning and tetanus
9. Testamentary capacity
 10. Plumbism
III. Short Answers: (10 x 2 = 20)
1. Oochronosis
2. The cephalic index of a skull is 84. What is skull type? What is probable race?
3. Name
 a. Section 304-A IPC
 b. Section 304-V IPC
4. Cocaine bugs
5. Which viscera are preserved in all fatal cases of suspected poisoning?
6. Professional death sentence
7. Name
 a. Two abotifacient poisons
 b. Two arrow poisons
8. Primary incisions made on skin in medico – legal autopsy
9. Transvestism
 10. Posthumous child
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Dr. MGR University August 2012 Question Paper
Subject : Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

[LB 1236] Sub. Code: 1236
SECOND YEAR B.H.M.S. DEGREE EXAM – AUGUST 2012
PAPER II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY
Q .P .Code: 581236
Time: 180 minutes Maximum: 100 Marks
Answer ALL questions in the same order
I. Elaborate on: Pages Time Marks
(Max.)(Max.)(Max.)
1. What do you understand by infamous conduct? Give
detail offences in relation to professional misconduct. 16 25 15
2. Action, sign, symptoms, treatment and post-mortem
appearances of Arsenic poisoning? 16 25 15
II. Write notes on:
1. Professional secrecy. 3 8 5
2. Rigor mortis. 3 8 5
3. Workmen’s compensation Act. 3 8 5
4. Grievous injury. 3 8 5
5. Signs of pregnancy. 3 8 5
6. Describe snake bite and its treatment. 3 8 5
7. Euthanasia. 3 8 5
8. Plumbism. 3 8 5
9. Diatoms. 3 8 5
10. Dying declaration. 3 8 5
III. Short Answers:
1. Rule of Haase. 1 5 2
2. Vitriolage. 1 5 2
3. Locards principle of exchange. 1 5 2
4. Kleptomania. 1 5 2
5. Lichtenberg’s flowers. 1 5 2
6. Atavism. 1 5 2
7. Mc Naughtens rule. 1 5 2
8. Carboluria. 1 5 2
9. Sentences authorised by law. 1 5 2
10. Mc Ewan sign. 1 5 2
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Dr. MGR University FEBRUARY 2013 Question Paper
Subject : Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

[ LC 1236] Sub. Code: 1236
SECOND YEAR B.H.M.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION
PAPER II : FORENSIC MEDICINE & TOXICOLOGY
Q. P. Code - 581236
Time : Three Hours Maximum : 100 marks
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
I ESSAY QUESTIONS 2 X 15 = 30
1 Define drowning. Explain the mechanism of drowning and types of drowning. Write in
detail about the external and internal findings of drowning.
2 Write in detail about concentrate sulphuric acid poisoning, treatment, cause of death and
post-mortem findings
II SHORT NOTES 10 X 5 = 50
1 Mummification
2 Inquest
3 Super imposition technology
4 Artificial insemination
5 Causes of impotency
6 Mc Naughten’s rule
7 Hydrostatic test
8 MTP Act
9 Stab injury
10 Dactylography
III SHORT ANSWERS 10 X 2 = 20
1 Quoad
2 Perjury
3 Lesbinism
4 Lucid interval
5 Gun powder
6 Covering
7 Rule of nine
8 Joule burn
9 Abrus antidote
10 Opium antidote
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Dr. MGR University AUGUST 2013 Question Paper
Subject : Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

[LD 1236] Sub Code: 1236
II BHMS DEGREE EXAMINATION – AUGUST 2013
Paper II - Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Q.P. Code : 581236
Time – Three hours Maximum – 100 marks
Answer ALL questions
I Essay questions (2x15 = 30)
1. What are the various forms of Asphyxial Death? Explain the signs and symptoms,
postmortem appearances and how will you differentiate Antemortem and postmortem
hanging.
2. Write on signs and symptoms, treatment, postmortem findings of Strychnos nuxvomica
poisoning.
III Short notes (10 x 5 = 50)
1. Dactylography.
2. Diatoms.
3. Grievous Hurt.
4. Magistrate court and powers.
5. Signs of recent delivery in the living.
6. Classification of poisons.
7. Mummification.
8. Rule of nine.
9. Incised wound.
10. Railway spine.
III Short answers (10 x 2 = 20)
1. Dichotomy.
2. Corpus Delecti.
3. Hymen.
4. Summon.
5. Cadaveric Spasm.
6. Burking.
7. Testamentary Capacity.
8. IPC 304A and IPC 304 B.
9. Crown to heel length of a foetus is 35cm. What is its age? Mention the name of the Rule
you used.
10. Runamoke.
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Dr. MGR University FEBRUARY 2014 Question Paper
Subject : Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

[LE 1236]  Sub.Code :1236
SECOND PROFESSIONAL B.H.M.S. DEGREE EXAM
PAPER II – FORENSIC MEDICINE & TOXICOLOGY
Q.P. Code : 581236
Time: Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks
Answer All questions
I. Essay Questions: (2 x 15 = 30)
1. Classify Mechanical Injuries. Write in brief about each and write in detail about
lacerations (2+ 6+7 = 15)

2. Write an essay on arsenic poisoning. Which disease does it resemble? What are
the differentiating features? (9+1+ 5 = 15)
II. Short notes: (10 x 5 = 50)
1. Dying declaration
2. Rights of a registered Medical Practitioner
3. Dactylography
4. Rigor mortis and its Medicolegal importance
5. Differences between hanging and strangulation
6. Superfoetation and superfecundation
7. Plumbism-signs and symptoms
8. Sudden Infant death syndrome (SIDS)
9. Differences between strychnine poisoning and tetanus
10.MTP Act 1971
III. Short answers: (10 x 2 = 20)
1.Section.299 of IPC
2. Negative Autopsy
3.The cephalic Index of a skull is 75, What is the skull type and the probable race
4. Medicolegal Importance of diatoms
5. What are demulcents? Give two examples
6. Bhang
7.Name two Ideal suicidal poisons and two Abortifacient poisons.
8. Atavism – Define.
9. Mc naughten’s Rule
10.Oochronosis
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Dr. MGR University AUGUST 2014 Question Paper
Subject : Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

[LF 1236] Sub.Code :1236
SECOND B.H.M.S. DEGREE EXAM
PAPER II – FORENSIC MEDICINE & TOXICOLOGY
Q.P. Code : 581236
Time: Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks
Answer All questions
I. Essay Questions: (2 X 15 = 30)
1. Define drowning, types of drowning, mechanism of drowning and post
mortem external and internal findings.

2. Explain in detail opium poisoning, signs and symptoms, post mortem findings
internal and external findings with differential diagnosis of opium coma.
II. Short Notes: (10 X 5 = 50)
1. Surrogate birth.
2. Pugilistic attitude.
3. Signature fracture.
4. Run amok.
5. Road side poison.
6. Medico legal importance of hair.
7. Judicial hanging.
8. Dying declaration.
9. Cattle poison.
10.Contra coup lesion.
III. Short Answers: (10 X 2 = 20)
1. Perjury.
2. Deformities.
3. Gun powder.
4. Stab injury.
5. Treatment of methyl alcohol poisoning.
6. Tribalism.
7. Carbol urea.
8. Mc Naughten’s rule.
9. Cupping.
10. Mc Evan’s sign.
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[LG 1236]

Dr. MGR University FEBRUARY 2015 Question Paper
Subject : Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

Sub.Code :1236
SECOND B.H.M.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION
PAPER II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY
Q.P. Code : 581236
Time: Three Hours Maximum : 100 Marks
Answer All questions
I. Essay Questions: (2 x 15 = 30)
1. Define abortion, types of abortion. Explain in detail about the different way of
criminal abortion and its complications.
2. Explain in detail of concentrated Sulphuric acid poisoning with fatal dose, fatal
period, signs, symptoms, complications and treatment.
II. Write notes on: (10 x 5 = 50)
1. Medico legal importance of teeth.
2. Inquest.
3. Exhumation.
4. Laceration wound.
5. Explain in detail “Mania”.
6. Superimposition technology.
7. Hydro static test.
8. Whips lash injury.
9. Artificial inseminations.
10. Medico Legal Termination of Pregnancy Act.
III. Short Answers on: (10 x 2 = 20)
1. Explain Covering.
2. Neutron activation analysis.
3. Barr bodies.
4. Vitriolage.
5. Pond’s fracture.
6. Battered baby syndrome.
7. Physiological antidote.
8. Hostile witness.
9. Treatment of ethyl alcohol poisoning.
10. Treatment of oxalic acid poisioning.
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Dr. MGR University AUGUST 2015 Question Paper
Subject : Paper II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

[LH 1236] Sub. Code: 1236
SECOND B.H.M.S. DEGREE EXAMINATION
PAPER II – FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY
Q.P. Code: 581236
Time : Three Hours Maximum : 100 marks
Answer ALL questions
I. Essay Questions: (2 x 15 = 30)
 1. Define drowning. Classify its types, mechanism and postmortem appearance
 of drowning.
 2. Action, sign, symptoms, treatment and post-mortem appearance of Arsenic poisoning.
II. Write notes on: (10 x 5 = 50)
 1. Magistrate inquest.
 2. Workmen’s compensation act.
 3. Malingering.
 4. Euthanasia.
 5. Dactylography.
 6. Cadaveric spasm.
 7. Mc Naughten’s Rule.
 8. Symptoms of nux vomica poisoning.
 9. Complications of criminal abortion.
10. Cocaine Bugs.
III. Short answers on: (10 x 2 = 20)
 1. The sentences authorized by law.
 2. Spalding’s sign.
 3. Vitriolage
 4. Conduct money.
 5. Judicial hanging.
 6. Overlaying.
 7. Mc Ewan sign.
 8. Burtonian line.
 9. Testamentary capacity.
10. Atavism.
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