Volume 1

Text-book of forensic medicine and toxicology / by Arthur P. Luff.

  • Arthur P. Luff
Date:
1895
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Credit: Text-book of forensic medicine and toxicology / by Arthur P. Luff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    occurs from asphyxia. When the primary cause of death is disturbance of the functions of the brain, death occurs from coma. Tabular View of the Modes of Death (A) Syncope (death beginning at the heart). 1. Ancemia (want of blood, but no want of heart power). [a] Loss of blood from wounds. {b) Hsemorrhages from the lungs, uterus, &c. (c) Extensive suppuration (indirect drain upon the blood). 2. Asthenia (want of heart power, but not necessarily want of blood), (a) Starvation. {b) Exhausting diseases, such as phthisis, cancer, &c. (c) Poisons exerting a depressing action on the heart. (d) Some injuries, such as a severe blow on the epigastrium. (e) Severe brain lesions. (B) Asphyxia (death beginning at the lungs). 1. Stoppage in action of the respiratory muscles. (ft) Exhaustion of the muscles from cold, &c. {b) Loss of nerve power from injury to the upper part of the spinal cord, (c) Mechanical pressure on the chest or abdomen. {d) Spasm from tetanus, strychnine poisoning, &;c. 2. Stoppage in action of the lungs.—From entrance of air into the pleural cavity through a wound. 3. Prevention of escape of air from, or of entry of air into, the lungs. (a) Foreign bodies in the mouth, larynx, &c. {b) Submersion in water, (c) Suffocation, strangulation, hanging. 4. Stoppage of blood supply to the lungs.—From blocking of the pulmonary artery by a blood clot (embohsm).