51. Kemény: Wien. med. Blat., 1890, xiii., p. 37.—Man, age 45. Suffocated by curdled milk in air-passages.
52. Maschka: Vier. ger. Med., 1885, xliii., pp. 11-14.—Man, age 65. Accidental compression of chest.
53. Heidenhain: Same journal, 1886, xliv., pp. 96-101.—Vomited matter passed into air-passages while subject was drunk.
54. Langstein: Wien. med. Woch., 1880, xxx., pp. 624-626.—Child found dead in bed; had vomited food while asleep and breathed it into air-passages.
55. Ward: Catalog. Army Med. Mus., Med. Sec., p. 33.—Soldier, age 17; choked to death by lumbricoid worm passing from pharynx into right bronchus. Specimen 7,737.
Suicide.
56. Sankey: Brit. Med. Jour., 1883, i., p. 88.—Epileptic; found dead in bed, lying on his back. A round pebble in each nostril; strip of flannel rolled up and stuffed in throat.
57. Macleod: Ibid., 1882, ii., p. 1246.—Suicidal maniac. Had to be fed because he refused food. Was seen to be blue in the face and breathing hard. His mouth was forced open; roll of flannel found in throat. Macleod refers to another case, a woman in dissecting-room, with similar roll of flannel in throat.
See Tidy, “Med. Jur.,” Cases 15 to 17.