A practical guide to meat inspection / by Thomas Walley.

Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical guide to meat inspection / by Thomas Walley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    DEATH BY VIOLENCE, &c. Dislocations, Fractures, Wounds, and Bruises. IN all severe accidents death may be produced instan- taneously by shock, or subsequently, and unexpectedly, from inability to rally from the effects of shock ; it may be pro- duced instantaneously by hemorrhage, or subsequently, from the debility resulting therefrom. If from shock, and the operation of bleeding has not been practiced sufficiently early, the condition of the carcase will be the same as in death from shooting or drowning; if from haemorrhage, the tissues being drained of their blood will present no departure from the normal. The only forms of dislocation likely to produce immediate death are cervical, dorsal, and lumbar dislocations, and these only when the displaced bones exert sufficient pressure on the spinal cord as to absolutely annihilate its function, in which case death results, when the pressure is exerted anteriorly to the fourth cervical vertebra, from paralysis of the diaphragm; or, in any case, from arrest of all the functions by withdrawal of nerve force, or from shock. If the pressure is not sufficient to produce absolute compression of the spine, the animal becomes partially or totally paralysed, and may live for a few days or for many months, and die ultimately from exhaustion or from some intercurrent disease. In most cases, when animals lie in a recumbent position for a considerable period, the nutrition of the tissues becomes largely interfered with, or fever becomes marked, or there is