<![CDATA[The death erases all doubts from the dead’s mind but inscribes new doubts in the living mind. The study oftime since death gives the final turn in the crime to find the cause and time of death. The present study wasconducted in Department of Forensic Medicine, Madras Medical College, Chennai during February 2006to July 2006 to find out the time since death by analysing the potassium levels of vitreous humour afterdeath. Total 75 cases were studied which is broadly classified into: Hospital cases and Non- Hospital casesirrespective of age, gender, religion, caste etc., who has died. All the data related to Non-Hospital cases wereanalysed to record the effect of nature and pattern of rise of vitreous humour in the deaths, whose detailedautopsy examination were also recorded subsequently for statistical analysis. From this study, it is concludedthat the vitreous sodium and chloride was found to be totally unaffected and stable for 97 hours after death,irrespective of sex, age, environmental temperature, nature of death and cause of death.]]>
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