earth. Mother stated that the child had not breathed. Putrefaction had
begun. There was a brownish tint of skin of upper front part of neck
below jaw; drops of sanious fluid flowing from nose; umbilical cord had
not been tied; subcutaneous hemorrhage in right temporal region; brown
bruised surface and contused wounds of pharynx, where particles like
ashes and vomited matter were found. Lungs filled the pleural cavities,
were rose-colored and showed abundant punctated subpleural ecchymoses;
bloody, frothy mucus in trachea and bronchi; some serum in pericardium;
respiration had been complete. Opinion given, that the infant had been
suffocated by obstruction of pharynx, probably by fingers.