A Review of the Case (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...the current of blocd as that it will flow 'orward, unobstructed by the lips of the wound, then the jetting or sprinkling of blood may be considerable. Thus in the case nlready quoted from Marc, of the young man who cut his throat standing before a window, the furniture and window were spotted with blood to the height of about three feet, an overturned chair was sprinkled with blood, a night-cap on a step before the window, raised about one foot, was spotted on its upper side. In this instance neither carotid was entirely severed, both were out into "and the right half cut, the left more than half cut." "In a case reported by Rami, Adelon, Dubois, and Boyer (Annates d' Hygiene, xv., 394; Beck, ii., 134, ) in which only about one pound of blood was lost, the throat was supposed to be cut while the woman was standing a short distance from a wall; the wall was sprinkled to the height of three feet four inches at one spot, and at another spot to the height of two feet six inches. In this case the right carotid was cut in two-thirds of its circumference, on its inner side. "In the case of Mrs Duval, referred to by Beck (ii., 214), reported by Devergie (Legal Medicine, ii., p-ge 168), the larynx and hyoid bone were broken, the superior thyroid artery was cut, but the carotids wore not. The blood had been thrown in jets over the features, but it is not remarked that it was thrown upon the furniture. This was a case of homicidal cut-throat; the thyroid artery was enlarged to supply an enlarged thyroid gland "In the case of Sellis, (See Note C., ) the valet of the Duke of Cumberland (Beck, ii.), thero was a wound in the throat six inches long, dividing the arteries on both sides, whether wholly or not, i- no, stated. There was blood o...