criminal, hung; after hanging ten minutes, the body was cut down.
Examination half-hour after drop fell. He was resuscitated and partly
regained consciousness, but died three days afterward of œdema of
lungs after repeated severe convulsions. He had tumors of the neck
which probably interfered with the compression of the trachea. See also
Allg. Wien. med. Zeit., 1880, xxv., p. 161, and Wien. med. Blät., 1880,
i., pp. 423-430; translated in Ann. Mal. Oreill. and Larynx, Paris,
1880, vi., pp. 99-112.