It was not a literal smoke that they were fleeing from nor even the asphyxiation of being alone.
His consciousness awry, at certain seconds the world seemed to have become an ethereal haze and he sensed himself on a slippery precipice of the declension of the foundation of self, which one only feels in the asphyxiation of loneliness.
Asphyxiation by gas is treated the same as in the case of drowning, omitting, of course, the operation of getting the water out of the body.
Tracheotomy was performed and a special corkscrew devised to extract it, but unfortunately the patient died of slow asphyxiation and exhaustion.
Absolute asphyxiation would soon follow the closing of the coffin lid.
The tooth was ejected in an effort at vomiting, but the cork entered the larynx, and, after violent struggles, asphyxiation caused death in an hour.
Recovery is quite rare when the asphyxiation has gone so far, the patients generally succumbing shortly after being cut down or on the following day.
Chevers mentions a most curious case, in which cerebral congestion from theasphyxiation of strangling was accidentally relieved by an additional cut across the throat.
In his report Polak says he has had no failures; the patients had no recollection of the labor; in the first series of fifty-one the children showed no sign of asphyxiation or even cyanosis except in two cases.
If there is any serious obstacle at all to delivery in the parturient canal or in the fetal position, or the like, pituitrin is likely to cause rupture of the uterus and asphyxiation of the child.
The guns used against Colenso to discharge the gas and kill the defenders byasphyxiation were brought from the British dreadnought, “Terrible.
They were in perfectly natural poses, but the bright yellow of their skins showed the manner of their death--asphyxiation by lyddite.
A practical man, conversant with cases in which asphyxiation resulted from inhaling carbonic acid gas, gives some valuable hints for their recovery by simple remedies always at hand.
The resistance of new-born animals to this mode of asphyxiation is especially noted in the greater time required to drown a pup than an adult dog.
The peculiar clinched condition of the hand is not pathognomonic, though strongly suggestive of drowning, as it may appear in asphyxiation from other causes.
Into a dungeon in Puerto Cabello, a Spaniard threw five flasks of alkali, thus causing the death by asphyxiation of all the prisoners locked there.
You see, there's unfortunately no doubt that he and I each tried to kill the other and between us we've succeeded in killing Beresford, though I can't say for certain if it was asphyxiation or the blow on the heart.
O'Rane was straddling Beresford's body, pinning both arms to the floor with his knees and gripping his throat with both hands until the eyes glared in the early stages of asphyxiation and the mouth fell open, gobbling hideously.
Cases of asphyxiation from this cause are not at all rare.
Death from asphyxiation due to this gas is not an uncommon occurrence, to persons descending into wells.
Asphyxiation caused by an escape of gas while sleeping in a bedroom almost hermetically sealed.
The cause of death was said to be asphyxiation by an escape of gas in the young lady's bedroom.
Ned," said Bob impressively, "my firm belief is that the young lady did not meet her death by asphyxiation caused by an escape of gas.
It cannot be breathed without baneful effects, and is even more dangerous than carbonic-acid gas, which eventually causes asphyxiation by reducing the quantity of oxygen in the air.
The mind still preserves its clearness, and in a measure assists the further process of asphyxiation because of its impotency.
