13. Lacassagne: Pellier thesis (supra), p. 71.—Man; hung himself; was cut down and sent to hospital; was aphonic for four days; then a severe bronchitis set in, and at the end of a week a gangrenous expectoration. The mark of the cord lasted fifteen days.
14. Maschka: Archiv. de l’anthrop. crim., Paris, 1886, i., pp. 351-356.—Man, age about 60, found dead under a tree in the woods near Prague. No sign of violence. A cord thick as a sugar-loaf around the neck; another cord attached to a branch of the tree. There was at first a strong suspicion of violence, but the conclusion reached was that he had hung himself and that the body had fallen from breaking of the cord; that death was due to asphyxia was shown by the furrow on the neck, the dark liquid blood, and the congested lungs. There was no infiltration below the furrow in the neck, and no lesion of larynx. The man had shown signs of melancholy.
15. Friedberg: Virchow’s Archiv, 1878, lxxiv., p. 401.—Suicidal hanging. Examination twenty-eight weeks after death. The front of the neck showed a groove above the larynx, firm and of gray color; ecchymosis in subcutaneous tissue.
16. Bollinger: Friedreich’s Blätt. f. ger. Med., 1889, xl., p. 7.—Man, age 48; found dead. Had made a ligature out of a night-gown and tied it around his neck, the other end around top of a low bed-post; his neck hung by the ligature placed below the larynx. Illustrated.
17. Med. Times and Gaz., London, 1860, ii., p. 39.—Woman; had collected accounts of celebrated persons who had been hanged; finally hanged herself.
18. E. Hoffman: Mitt. d. Wien. Med. Doct. Colleg., 1878, iv., pp. 97-112.—1st. Woman, age about 25; found dead sitting in bed, a handkerchief around her neck fastened to the bed-curtain. The police thought she had been killed and then hung, but the physician concluded that she had committed suicide. An examination of the stomach showed that she had previously tried to poison herself with arsenic.
19. 2d. Woman, age 51; found hanging in half-lying position.
20. 3d. Man, age 50. First tried to kill himself with phosphorus, then sulphuric acid; finally hung himself in a half-kneeling position.
21. Müller-Beninga: Berlin. klin. Woch., 1877, xiv., p. 481.—Man, age 40; hung himself. There was no swelling of genitals and no soiling of clothing. Necroscopy showed death from asphyxia, and in urethra near meatus quite a quantity of seminal fluid, as shown by microscopical examination.