The Arkansas advocate., 1837-02-24
INSTANCES on SUDDEN DEATH.

SINGULAR INSTANCES or SUDDEN DEATH
 drunken coal beaver IS related to have fallen from wagon, being taken up and carried to St. Barholo- news hospital. He stripped, and the surgeon ex- amned him, but no injury could be discovered still he sad he could not rise up in the bed. Mr. Abernehy called in but this celebrated surgeon could make nothing of the case, aud directed that he should be washed thoroughly clean and barber procured 10 shave him. About an hour alter message was brought that the had nsantaneeusy, while undergoing tho operation of shaving, ded--rhe barber said he appear cd 10 be well, and talking him one instant, and the next dead man. "I had hold of him." said be- by the nose, and did but turn his head very gently o use the razor when he, without breathing or a sigh, went od." Abernethy turned to the young students, and told them thls was for study, saying there was cause for the mans death--that the following morning he would open the body and find !: out. A, the same time he asked the students fo think oi tho and tell him i'll the morning their opinions of what might be he cause One of the students suggested that verebra bone fractured, and that as the bar Der turned bis head shave him, splinter penetrated the spinal cord. Abernelhy immediately coincded in his opinion, and they then cut down the back and dis covered small piece of fractured bone not bigger than half pin, which had penetrated the spine taking the corpse by the nose, they observed, they turned the head way, the splinter ou and as they turn- ed the contrary entered tho vital cord. The prob- lem al once solved and striking illustration furnished how little t takes to stop the great machine of life in man.
 An instance more singular occurred in the case of man who was found in a field quite dead, with hay fork prong by the side of him. He was open ed, but probable of his sndden death could be discovered. A. length enc of the surgeons sent for the fork, in consequence of witness saying on- ly few minutes before his death that he the de- ceased leaning h with fine point upward, as he was standing in the field. On he point of prong of the fork discovered something like small speck but no wound could not De found upon tho corpse The surgeon now pushed back the corner of the eve next the uoso and then ecared that ho had discovered the cause of lhe mans death, namely, has while leaning the fork ho had slipped and the point of had en- tered the corner o e eye under he nose and produ ced instant desih. "for.n added he, swe all know ihat If ihls nEauHef may bt killed with pin or ale, without haviag any external wound 10 ind- cate the cause Inc surgeon then explained to tho Fessaa= rFegs tut is peculiarly vulnerable part could He he feaehe, excepting unly by the means above de- scHAed-thai l putting ie instrument used sideways la tie o tha eve. k thea immediately direct in sialgh lof&agd manner. as 10 penetrate Tn di- ssf rewards ha hsais ssndeF sAe upper part o Inc nasal hone. SueA an oaens'lnn- he sad, performed w.sa the smallest aeeae, produces instantaneous death.
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