Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1 by R. A. Witthaus et al.

64. _Tardieu: Op. cit., p. 125._—Woman found hanging in her room.

Circumstances indicated homicidal strangulation and that the hanging was done to avert suspicion. Post-mortem examination showed the base of the tongue ecchymosed, and ecchymosis extending up to the soft palate; mucous membrane of pharynx congested; connective tissue and mucous membrane between hyoid bone and larynx congested posteriorly; epiglottis showed slight ecchymosis, mucous membrane red. These ecchymoses were not caused by the cord, for the latter was placed below the hyoid bone and this bone was not broken. There were also marks on the collar-bone like the mark of two hands.