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

26-49._—Woman found hanging in a kneeling position. The ligature on the neck was loose. The necroscopy showed the following: Tongue between the teeth; eyelids swollen and livid; livid spots on face and left ear; lower lip torn; a number of marks on neck; one red stripe not sharply limited; skin not parchmenty and no ecchymosis; ecchymoses of scalp; periosteum of skull reddened; hemorrhage in temporal muscle; brain and pia mater congested; much fluid in ventricle. Larynx and trachea dirty red-brown; right side of heart empty; a little dark fluid blood in left; great vessels, including aorta, containing much dark fluid blood. Lungs congested and œdematous. Liver, spleen, and kidneys congested. Opinion given that she died of asphyxia and was either choked or hanged. Reference to Royal College of Medicine, Königsberg, where the opinion was given that she died of injuries on head and neck and was afterward hanged.