The tendency of its teaching was to treat the patient rather as a living cadaver than as a sentient being endowed with vital forces, and the charge which Asclepiades once falsely made against Hippocrates was revived upon new grounds.
All those who have eaten of the cadaver have a black ring of charcoal powder and fat drawn around the mouth.
At the death of one an attempt to separate the other from the cadaver was made, but it was unsuccessful, the second soon dying; the operation necessitated opening the cranium and parting the meninges.
By experiments on the cadaver Dubrisay found that the difficulty in extraction was due to rust on the steel, and by the serrated edges of the wound in the bone.
After death the cadaver was opened and 14 corroded knives were found in the stomach, some of the handles being partly digested; two were found in the pelvis and one in the abdominal cavity.
In the naturally infected plague rats the rigidity of the fresh cadaver was pronounced.
The rat cadaver was sent to the Bureau of Science and the following facts were reported from there some days later: The mummified rat and skeleton were pulverized in a sterile mortar and an emulsion was made and injected into guinea-pigs.
In my own experience I have observed that ants are likely to attack the cadaver early and to obscure the deductions by their destruction of the body.
In remittent fever we never find the cadaver oozing blood from the nose and the mouth, nor are the stomach or intestines ever found to contain black vomit.
Therefore, in these cases the differential diagnosis on the cadavermust be limited to this, that we are able to demonstrate the existence of a purulent or ichorous deposit.
When very numerous they give a livid hue to the skin, and that appearance to the cadaver to which, together with the high mortality, was doubtless due the term black death by which severe epidemics were known in the Middle Ages.
Having died in a public hospital, the cadaver had been utilized in rehearsal of these operations previous to its burial in the Potter’s Field.
Summer heat and shallow or stagnant water hasten the development of putrid gas and subcutaneous emphysema which bring the cadaver to the surface, and that, too, sometimes in spite of precautions taken to insure the submersion.
In ordinary circumstances a body becomes skeletonized in about ten years, although in exceptional cases the cadaver may resist decomposition after many years.
Whether the cadaver is recent or one that has lain in the water a long time, the expert is confronted with a question of the differences that he may expect to find in a body drowned and one thrown into the water after death.
These conditions increase with the length of time after death, so that after a time a wound made on a cadaver would show very little if any clotting owing to very slight hemorrhage, and little or no clotting of the blood extravasated.
He concluded that the fracture could not be produced on the cadaver by hanging, and is, therefore, caused during life.
The death happening in winter or summer, in a temperate or intertropical country, and sojourn of the cadaver in salt or fresh water, are each and all important details to be considered in studying the submergence of a body.
Langreuter[786] made some experiments on a cadaver from which enough of the posterior part had been removed to enable him to view the throat.
On the cadaver it is said to be harder to cause fractures and lesions of the skin than on the living body.
Sometimes, however, the genital organs have been cut from the cadaver of a woman, presumably for the purpose of concealing traces of rape that may have preceded the murder.
Ankerstroem figures as the youth beheaded in the presence of the assembled Estates, the crowned and bleeding cadaver represents his victim Gustavus III, the child, his son and successor Gustavus Adolphus IV.
A convulsive shudder swept over the crowned cadaver at sight of the youth, and from the gaping wound the crimson blood welled afresh.
The bartender placed the cadaver underneath the sink in the service bar.
The cadaver is trussed up by having its feet drawn back to its haunches by means of a cord tied around the shoulders and is thrown into the impromptu grave.
Since there was nobody now at the head of the coffin it fell onto the platform, the lid came off, and the malodorous and semi-decomposed cadaver rolled on top of the baggage man who emitted awful shrieks and howls.
One of the pitiable features of death on the desert is that bodies are found with fingers worn to the bone from frantic digging and often beneath the cadaver is water at two feet.
Carbajal Espinosa differs from these in saying: 'al pasivo le arrancaban las entranas, se llenaba su vientre de ceniza y el cadaver era quemado.
Remove the tissue or organ from the cadaver as soon after death as possible, using great care to avoid distortion or injury.
Cremate the cadavertogether with the board upon which it is fixed.
The cadaver slides off that table and through that hole.
For what seemed to Mary an interminable time, the cadaver clung to the polished steel.
He could not have been able to give the detailed instructions that he has for the treatment of every portion of the body only that he knew them by actual contact in the cadaver as well as the patient.
The cadaver must not differ much in height from the person that has been insured; and its lungs must not show that they were those of anybody dead before thrown into the water.
If a man died in stir he was just a cadaver for the dissecting table, nothing more.
He goes to a furnished room, already secured, and there dresses the cadaver in his own clothes, putting his watch, letters and money in the cadavers pockets.
Halo-hello in your fingertips I said, to a cadaver of light boldly striking a tuning fork to ring an engagement of gold flecks by your bed.
Infernally inclined, a modicum of sparse economy idly knotting ice thru a cadaver fence before putting on a brave show-- her stern beauty and most commanding feature, snow, shone like almonds or stars twinkling from an anorexic fist.
I repeated, flinging the cadaver into the middle of the bed upon which a pool of blood appeared.
That small cadaver haunted me, I always saw that head hideously crushed, the blood squirting all over the white clothes of the bedroom, and the bed indelibly stained with blood.
You should have seen him, musket on shoulder, holding by the tail the cadaver of a cat, bleeding and motionless!