Word: asphyxia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start to save itself until its air was fouled and bilge water had begun to wet the batteries, releasing chlorine gas. Says the escape manual of the U. S. Navy, father of the submarine: "It is emphasized that if attempted individual escape is delayed until the first stages of asphyxia have developed, it will probably be too late successfully to accomplish...
...essential oxygen too long, irreparable damage may result. Such after-effects are not confined to Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen, as they may and do follow the use of other anesthetic agents, for example, ether as mentioned in the report. Destruction of the brain cells may occur as a result of asphyxia without anesthesia...
...upward and Backward toward the point of suspension, because of the weight of the body. If the marks are horizontal, they show that the victim was not hanged but garroted, so that suicide is ruled out, no matter in what circumstances the body is found. In general, deaths by asphyxia are characterized by blueness (cyanosis) of the face, ears, fingernails and lips; the eyes are bloodshot and the inside of the lids are red; and there are tiny hemorrhages under the scalp. If the victim was manually strangled, the little hyoid bone in the throat is invariably crushed. If carbon...
...instant reaction. A little later Dr. Ruxton got out his scalpels, his knives, his surgical saws. He cut off Mrs. Ruxton's nose, ears, fingertips and toetips - extremities which to an expert criminal pathologist such as Britain's famed Sir Bernard Spilsbury would reveal traces of asphyxia and indicate that death had come by strangulation. As to Mary Jane Rogerson, Dr. Ruxton figured on fooling police into thinking she might have been a man. With this in mind he detached from her corpse the entire face, stripping it off the skull with his scalpels and completing his attempt...
...with the facts deduced by Drs. Haggard & Greenberg. He also agrees with the inferences which Camels considered expedient to exploit. But alongside those chips of fact he placed other chips: morphine, cocaine, strychnine, chloral hydrate, carbon monoxide, bichloride of mercury, ether, chloroform, diphtheria, tuberculosis, syphilis, influenza, typhoid fever, burns, asphyxia, hemorrhage, cancer, all stimulate the adrenals, cause a similar chemical increase of sugar in the blood. In the case of the intoxicants, biochemists find a temporary "lift" similar to that of nicotine. In the case of the infections, there might also be a perceptible feeling of well being, were...