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29. _Ibid., p. 219._—Woman, advanced in years, habits dissipated;

found strangled. Four excoriations on left side of larynx, one on right; blood in subcutaneous tissue. Marks of nails and long scratches on wrist. Injuries on face and left breast. She had been strangled by one hand on her neck while the other was over her mouth and nose. Face livid; eyes congested; frothy bloody liquid flowing from mouth and nose; tongue behind teeth; bloody froth in larynx and trachea; lungs large, much congested, splenized in places, surface emphysematous, looking like white spots; black fluid blood in heart; brain somewhat congested.