I can’t even recall how I Googled my way onto this book review – by a psychiatrist, of a pathologist’s published work
Many original contributions to forensic medicine were made by physicians associated with the Coroner’s Office and UCSF, including the “most unique” discovery that death by air embolism could occur with cunnilingus when air was blown into the vagina.
Was that an important move back in the day? Yikes.
Needless to say, I’m trying to get my twisted little hands on this gem of a book as I type. If anyone has seen it, please hit the comments.
It looks like Amazon only has links to used copies of the book: San Francisco Coroner’s Office: A History, 1850-1980
IIRC, the case was that a sailor had done this to a girl one night and was accused of murder, but the charges were dropped when the coroner figured out the cause was accidental.
The online catalog for the San Francisco Public Library lists ten copies of this item in their collections: http://sflib1.sfpl.org/search/?searchtype=t&searcharg=San+Francisco+Coroner's+Office:+A+History,+1850-1980&x=56&y=7&stype=2&SORT=D
Also, the public version of WorldCat can be used to discover other libraries that have this item, with the results ranked according to proximity to your zip code: http://www.worldcat.org/