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

criminal, hung; after hanging ten minutes, the body was cut down. Examination half-hour after drop fell. He was resuscitated and partly regained consciousness, but died three days afterward of œdema of lungs after repeated severe convulsions. He had tumors of the neck which probably interfered with the compression of the trachea. See also Allg. Wien. med. Zeit., 1880, xxv., p. 161, and Wien. med. Blät., 1880, i., pp. 423-430; translated in Ann. Mal. Oreill. and Larynx, Paris, 1880, vi., pp. 99-112.