Remarks on medical jurisprudence; intended for the general information of juries and young surgeons / [William Dease].
- William Dease
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on medical jurisprudence; intended for the general information of juries and young surgeons / [William Dease]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ <? ] if vegetable, the nervous fyftem becomes at once engaged, and no charaderiftic local ef- fect can be perceived on difledion. In either cafe death feems to me to be more immedi- ately produced by pain, the fatigue of vomit- ing, convulfions, and, in fhort, general fym- pathy, than from any organic injury. I have been frequently called on in cafes of death, where poiibn was fuppofed to have been given ; and after the moll accurate anatomical inveftigation, I never could de- cide, the appearances were fo ambiguous* Should this appear extraordinary, it ought to be remembered that in all cafes of fudden death, (particularly if the deceafed was of a full habit), the body fwells, and fuddenly turns putrid: although this event may in a fhorter time take place, and in a moreexten- five way, where poifon has been adminis- tered; yet this is a matter involved in fo much doubt, and depends fo much on con- tingency ariflng from feafon, fituation, and various other circumftances, as to render it of little weight in deciding on fo important a point. Poisons of all kinds induce fudden pu- trefaction, and fo do fpirits, when drank to fuch excefs as to caufe death. I remem- ber the cafe of a woman accuftomed to drink D fpirits](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20443973_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
