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Ir hunger; anxiety; congested appearance of face; ringing in ears. 2.
Loss of consciousness; convulsions; relaxation of sphincters. 3.
Respirations feeble and gasping, and soon cease; convulsions of
stretching character; heart continues to beat for three to four minutes
after breathing ceases. _Post-Mortem Appearances--External._--Cadaveric
lividity well marked; nose, lips, ears, finger-tips almost black in
colour; appearance may be placid or, if asphyxia has been sudden, the
tongue may be protruded and eyeballs prominent, with much bloody mucus
escaping from mouth and nose. _Internal._--The blood is dark and remains
fluid; great engorgement of venous system, right side of heart, great
veins of thorax and abdomen, liver, spleen, etc. Lungs dark purple in
colour; much bloody froth escapes on squeezing them; mucous lining of
trachea and bronchi congested and bright red in colour; air-cells
distended or ruptured; many small haemorrhages on surface of lungs and
other organs, as well as in their substance (_Tardieu's spots_), due to
rupture of venous capillaries from increased vascular pressure.
XVII.--DEATH BY HANGING In hanging, death occurs by asphyxia, as in
drowning. Sensibility is soon lost, and death takes place in four or
five minutes. The eyes in some cases are brilliant and staring, tongue
swollen and livid, blood or bloody froth is found about the mouth and
nostrils, and the hands are clenched. In other cases the countenance is
placid, with an almost entire absence of the signs just given. The mark
on the neck, which may be more or less interrupted by the beard, shows
the course of the cord, which in hanging is obliquely round the neck
following the line of the jaw, but straight round in strangul