THE LATE SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. COHEN.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 12, 20 October 1871, Page 2

THE LATE SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. COHEN.

INQUEST. The testimony of Dr. Hooper at the close of which the enquiry was adjourned until Monday, was as follows : —Dr. Hooper deposed : I was called to visit deceased at his house in Grey-street, between halfpast seven and eight o’clock. On arrival I found him quite dead. He was lying on his back on a sofa. The lower limbs were stretched out, with the muscles firmly contracted. The arms were fixed across the chest, and the hands tightly clenched. The lower jaw was firmly fixed. The lower lip was bruised, as if he had bitten it, and there were marks of blood upon the teeth. The pupils of th§ eyes were dilated. There was no smell of anything about the mouth that I could detect. The countenance was not distorted in any way I should think deceased had been dead for more than an hour. I looked carefully about the room, but saw no signs of vomit anywhere. I saw an empty brandy bottle with a little camphor in it, on the washstand. The paper produced was taken out of one of his pockets in presence of several people. There was nothing in it, and it had no smell. I have this day made a. post mortem examination of the body, assisted by Dr. M. E. B. Nicholson. There are no marks of violence about it. The first part I examined was the brain, which I found quite healthy. There was no congestion or rupture of blood vessels. We next examined the heart, which I considered to be healthy—no valvular disease whatever; both ventricles were empty. The lungs were quite healthy; in fact all the organs of the body. We examined the stomach, which was full of half-diges ted food; there was no odour of anything in it—no odour of prussic acid or any other poison. The coats of the stomach—the mucus membrane —near the entrance of the gullet, is deeply congested, reddened, and there is extravasation of blood in various parts of the stomach. The liver and kidneys were quite healthy, and also the intestines. I - observed no evidence of diarrhoea. At present lam unable to give any opinion as to the cause of death. I considered it my duty to remove the stomach and its contents for the purpose of analysis (bottle produced). I was struck with the extreme rigidity of the body in so short a time.—The Coroner stated that it would be necessary to adjourn the enquiry, and instructed Dr. Hooper to analyse the stomach, and the enquiiy was then adjourned until next Monday, at two o’clock.— Herald, October 19.

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