5. Ibid., p. 30.—Woman; hung herself with a twisted cloth. There was much ecchymosis about the neck and upper part of chest; lungs much congested; fibrin clot in left mitral orifice; liver, spleen, and stomach congested; transverse ligament of atlas ruptured.
6. Ibid.—Man, age 39. Distinct mark of cord around neck; no other mark of violence; laceration of larynx and dislocation of odontoid process; hands clinched; involuntary discharge of semen; thoracic and abdominal organs normal.
7. Ibid.—Man, age 70. Mark of cord around the neck, superficial in front, deep behind; second cervical vertebra dislocated; tongue slightly protruding; fingers clinched; meningeal vessels engorged; lungs tubercular, congested; right heart contained a little coagulated blood.
8. Ibid.—Sex and age not given. Found hanging on a tree; usual signs; odontoid process fractured; rope in a double noose without knot, a common dooree, such as is used for drawing water.
9. Ibid., p. 32.—Man, age 50. Face livid, eyes red and protruding; teeth clinched; lower jaw retracted; tongue behind the teeth; hands and feet contracted; anus covered with fæcal matter; circular depressed mark of cord around neck, hard as parchment, slightly ecchymosed along edges; some infiltration of blood in connective tissue beneath the cord; some tearing of soft parts; laryngeal cartilage displaced. Brain and membranes congested. Right cavities of heart distended with dark blood. Trachea congested.
10. Hurpy: Ann. d’ Hygiene, 1881, vi., pp. 359-367, with illustration.—Woman, age 77, suicided by hanging in the following way: a short cord was fastened by one end to a table leg; the other end was around her neck; she lay on the floor, face downward, clothing not disordered. The brain was congested; lungs congested and emphysematous; left side of heart empty (see Fig. 23).
Fig. 23.—Suicide. The cord on the neck is 44 cent. from the cord on the table leg; vertex of head 30 cent. from table leg. Case reported by Hurpy (see p. [717], Case 10).
11. Champouillon: Same journal, 1876, xlvi., p. 129.—Man, age 62; first tried to suffocate himself with charcoal smoke and then hung himself, but the rope broke and the body fell. He lived two days.
12. Pellier: Lyon thesis, 1883, No. 188, p. 72.—Boy, age 16, hung himself; rope broke; he was resuscitated; reddish circular furrow on neck, not like parchment; he had erection and ejaculation; buzzing in his ears and flashes before his eyes.