Still the fact is that it is found much oftener in strangulation than in hanging.
In English the word throttling is probably oftener applied to strangulation by the hand than by cords.
German writers designate strangulation by cords, ropes, and the like as Erdrosselung, and by the hand as Erwürgung; French writers do not make this distinction.
Boy: found dead with handle of pitchfork under necktie; marks of strangulation on larynx; eyes and tongue protruded; tongue livid and marked by teeth; brain congested.
The marks of the ligature in strangulation usually encircle the neck more completely and more horizontally than in hanging.
The principal distinctions between strangulation and suffocation would be the absence in the latter of marks on the neck.
Pellier[763] says that Littré mentions a case of rupture of tympanic membrane in strangulation by a cord.
Strangulation is almost always homicidal, hanging almost always suicidal, and suffocation (limited) usually accidental, but also often homicidal.
Cases of strangulation by sticks and other hard substances.
Appeared at first to be a case of strangulation following hanging; but the two marks were finally explained, that after the body was taken down it was ordered up again until the police should arrive.
Strangulation according to Bernard[737] causes a rise in temperature, varying from one to two degrees (Cent.
Neyding[746] says that suggillations in the groove made by the ligature on the neck are rare, but are oftener found in strangulation than hanging, because the conditions favoring their formation are oftener found in strangulation.
Royal Infirmary, with symptoms of strangulation which had been of eight days’ duration.
In cases of tight stricture, the bowels are distended with feces and flatus; and if evacuation is not procured vomiting ensues, followed by enteritic symptoms, as in strangulation of the higher bowels.
If foiled, and if the patient can bear depletion well, the strangulation being recent, try a full bleeding to syncope; it may save depletion afterwards, and at all events the patient will be none the worse for it.
In all herniæ, after strangulation has existed for some time, and adhesions formed, particularly at the neck, reduction is almost impossible.
A temporary retention is sometimes owing to a too rapid closure of the neck of the womb after calving, causing strangulation and imprisonment of the membranes.
He had delayed professing conversion until after the reading of his sentence and was consequently relaxed for strangulation and burning.
In these last three autos only one person was pertinacious; the rest all professed contrition and conversion and would have escaped with reconciliation instead of strangulation had it not been for the rigor in the treatment of relapse.
It is slower but just as deadly as thestrangulation of an animal by a boa constrictor, for these encircling roots cut off by strangulation the ascent of the sap, thus killing the tree.
He would cheerfully have undertaken the strangulationof each of those sportive officers.
But strangulation was not the Slogger's intention.
His sides were at the same instant grasped by a pair of powerful knees, while a rope was twisted round his neck, and the process of strangulation began.
In irreducible ruptures there is likely to be constipation and colic produced, and strangulation is more liable to occur.
Three days hence he would be put to death by strangulation outside the wall of Yungchang.
If in the dispute he had killed her, he would be punished with "strangulation after the usual period," the sentence laid down by the law and often recorded in the Peking Gazette (e.
For a time it was thought that the student had been killed by a sudden attack of illness; but, presently, the marks of strangulation became evident, and the truth came out.
Manual strangulation is a well-known crime and is quite popular in some countries.
This latter action effectually relieved the congestion caused by the strangulation and undoubtedly saved his life, while his unmutilated companion was found dead.
Rundle speaks of the lodgment of a bullet, and its escape, after a period of seven and one-half years, into the alimentary canal, causing internal strangulation and death.
The case was one of strangulation of an umbilical hernia.
There are many cases on record, some terminating fatally from strangulation or exposure to traumatism.
Beardsley speaks of an attempt atstrangulation that produced epilepsy.
Rydygier mentions a case of obstruction of the intestine during the sixth month of gestation, showing symptoms of strangulation for seven days, in which he performed abdominal section.
Bizzen mentions an instance in which from strangulation the head of a fetus was in a state of putrefaction, the funis being twice tightly bound around the neck.
There was paraphymotic strangulation of the globe, entirely preventing replacement and necessitating excision.
Strangulation is the most frequent cause; this is caused by adhesions and bands from former peritonitis, or following operations.
Even if it is small, it gives rise to much discomfort and the patient is always in danger of strangulation of the rupture.
The sphincter muscle contracts so tightly around them as to cause strangulation and unless properly treated they become gangrenous and slough off.
The strangulation may be recent and due to adhesion of the bowels to the abdominal cut or wound, or a coil of the bowel may be caught between the pedicle of a tumor and the wall of the pelvis.
Symptoms of strangulation have been well marked, yet when the sac is opened nothing is to be seen except a mass of omentum, perhaps tolerably healthy-looking.
Lorinzer, in which, afterstrangulation for eleven days, he opened the sac and found the bowel gangrenous.
The tying should be exceedingly tight, so as to cause instant and complete strangulation and death of the tumours.
The author after operating for the relief of strangulation in a case of very large femoral hernia in a girl aged 23, stitched up the neck of the sac, and also stitched it to Gimbernat's ligament.
Diagram to show how Strangulation by a Band may take place.
It is often associated with phenomena due to strangulation of the gut, leading to gangrene, and with systemic poisoning due to the absorption of toxins, resulting from the decomposition of the retained faeces.
Strangulation by Bands or Adhesions or through Apertures.
Two methods of producing strangulation exist; in the first the bowel passes under an arch or loop formed by some short constricting band and cannot return, or if the band is long it may form a noose in which the bowel is strangled (fig.
There were marks ofstrangulation and the wound from a hard blow on the temple.
The marks of strangulation did not interest me much; they might have been made before, and Mademoiselle Stangerson could have concealed them by a collarette, or any similar article of apparel.
Even with this double precaution, strangulation sometimes follows the act of deglutition.
There is little danger of strangulation from this form of rupture which may occur at birth and disappear with age.
Sometimes there may be a strangulation of the intestines where they fold or twist.
Between the cord and the neck a stick was inserted (hence the name) and twisted till strangulation ensued.
The thief came up behind his victim, threw a cord over his head, and tightened it nearly to strangulation point, while robbing him.
Should strangulation occur, it can hardly be expected that division of the stricture could be performed without the operation itself leading to equally certain fatal results.
It was said that strangulation had been prevented by the insertion of a silver tube in his wind-pipe, and that after hanging for the regulated time he was taken down and easily restored to consciousness.
Again he was repelled, this time Calcraft adding his weight to the body, and the strangulation was completed.
A number of cases of apparent death that have survived--where there was strangulation from a scarf, as in this case--have been reported.
Strangulation is effected by means of a silken cord that two executioners pull at each end, or by an iron collar tightened by a screw, very much like the garote at present used in Spain.
Strangulation by the silken cord, is reserved for the princes of the Imperial family; the iron collar is used to destroy, in the silence of the prison, those whose death it is desired to conceal.
This double favor, of a strangulation and a macaroni, conferred upon the triangular house, gave poor Cropoli a fancy to grace his hostelry with a pompous title.
