An Epitome of Juridical Or Forensic Medicine; for the Use of Medical Men, Coroners, And Barristers
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; t)ROWNING. 141 titcasions the frothy appearance, but is not Suffi- cient to produce tlie changes which tak6 place in drowning: "and hence it follows that the water produces all the changes which take place in drowning, indirectly ^ by excluding the atmo- isphferic air from the lungs." It was formerly thought that if no water was found in the sto- mach or bronchial cells, death could not have been occasioned by drowning*. Water is Sometimes found in the stomach of tlrowned persons, and it is p...robably taken in at the surface wheii they open their mouths for breath ; and the water which rushes in they are forced to drink, to prevent its falling on the lungs ; but when the head is entirely under wa- ter, it is not likely that any Can enter the sto- mach ; for, when the breath is stopped, and • suffocation comfnenced, I believe a person cannot swallbw, aind it will not fall into the stomach by its own weight f. ^ See the Ttiai of Spencer Cowp.er, Esq. for Murder, Hargcave's State Trials, vol.
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