Definition.—Putrefactive fermentation of dead tissue, from various causes.
Treatment.—The extremities are affected in senile gangrene. They should be wrapped with absorbent cotton which should then be saturated with fluid. The body itself should receive the same treatment accorded in the paragraph on senility.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]. NOTE—Many embalmers get along, some way, with much less in their outfit than enumerated here. The authors believe that the embalmer should have all the material needed to properly carry out his work, and anything of necessity left from the outfit only reduces the efficiency of the embalmer, and leaves him, at times, without the proper assortment of material.
[2]. The quantity to be injected of course varies, but a fair estimate would be that the quantity should be three-fourths of the capacity of the blood vessels of the body. This would require approximately one and one-eighth gallons of fluid to every 150 pounds of tissue. The latest transportation rules demand the injection of an amount of fluid equal to 10% of the body weight into the arteries.
[3]. Extracts from a paper written by F. W. Alexander, Conrad, Iowa.
INDEX
(References are to pages.)
A.
- Abdomen, [101], [254]
- Abdominal cavity, [101], [254]
- Abdominal fermentation, [182]
- Abdominal post, [351]
- Absence of normal moisture in skin, [200]
- Alimentary canal, [96]
- Anatomical guides, [225]
- Anatomy, [33]
- Angiology, [34]
- Antemortem staining, [191]
- Anus, [112]
- Apnea, [157]
- Aponeuroses, [55]
- Appendix, [109]
- Arterial system, [125]
- Arteries, structure of, [58]
- Artery, differentiated from nerve, [215]
- Artery, differentiated from vein, [215]
- Artery, how to cut for injection, [216]
- Artery, how to raise, [214]
- Artery, selection of, [211]
- Ascending color, [111]
- Asphyxia, [157]
- Axillary artery, location, [231]
- Aztecs embalming, [19]
- Azygos system, [125]