Excerpt from Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, Vol. 25 External appearances - Height twenty-five inches and a half; body not by any means emaciated; flesh flabby in the limbs, though not so much so as during life, in consequence of some remains of cadaveric rigidity; fingers flexed firmly towards the palms skin of face of a pale straw colour no blue discoloration now of inner canthi or upper lip mucous surface of lips less deeply coloured than during life; toes and extremities of fingers pale; livid discoloration of chest laterally, and of posterior surface of neck on the. Back and thighs this is gene ral; abdomen tympanitic, and integuments green coloured, especially at the left side one third of an inch thick of fat on the abdomen; subcutaneous veins full of blood, - some drops flow from those on the thorax muscular tissue less red than natural tongue not protruded through the teeth, and not livid coloured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.