Bartholinus, Blegny,
Camerarius, Morgagni, Pechlin, Schenck, Stoll, and Wepfer all
mention recovery after hanging. Forestus describes a case in
which a man was rescued by provoking vomiting with vinegar,
pepper, and mustard seed. There is a case on record in which a
person was saved after hanging nineteen minutes. There was a case
of a man brought into the Hopital Saint-Louis asphyxiated by
strangulation, having been hung for some time. His rectal
temperature was only 93.3 degrees F., but six hours after it rose
to 101.6 degrees F., and he subsequently recovered. Taylor cites
the instance of a stout woman of forty-four who recovered from
hanging. When the woman was found by her husband she was hanging
from the top of a door, having been driven to suicide on account
of his abuse and intemperance. When first seen by Taylor she was
comatose, her mouth was surrounded by white froth, and the
swollen tongue protruded from it. Her face was bloated, her lips
of a darkened hue, and her neck of a brown parchment-color. About
the level of the larynx, the epidermis was distinctly abraded,
indicating where the rope had been. The conjunctiva was
insensible and there was no contractile response of the pupil to
the light of a candle.
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