| INTRA-UTERINE | EXTRA-UTERINE. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Days. | Months. | |||||||||
| Seventh | Ninth | Mature | 1-8 | 9-15 | 16-28 | 1 | 3-6 | 7-12 | 2-24 | |
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| Maximum | 2 | 4 | 3½ | 3½ | 2½ | 5 | 4 | 8 | 7 | |
| Minimum | “ | ¾ | 1 | ¾ | 1½ | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| No. of Children (125) examined | 31 | 9 | 52 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
CHAPTER III
MODES OF DYING, SUDDEN DEATH,
SIGNS OF DEATH
MODES OF DYING
Syncope—death beginning at the heart.
Asphyxia—death beginning at the lungs.
Coma—death beginning at the brain.
Syncope.—From δνγκοπτω, I strike down. Sudden arrest of the action of the heart.
This condition may be brought about by
- 1. Deficiency of blood due to hæmorrhage—death by anæmia.
- 2. Effect of certain diseases and poisons, &c.—death by asthenia.
Causes—Heart Disease.—Aortic regurgitation, fatty degeneration, &c.
Hæmorrhages from wounds of blood-vessels or the heart, profuse hæmoptysis or hæmatemesis, uterine hæmorrhage, bursting of varicose veins, bursting of aneurysms.