Show death by the guillotine tho the pi medical publishes a paper by drs regnard and loye loyc on the examination of the head bead and body of a convict immediately after hit decapitation by the tha guillotine tho the prisoner was calm to the list and not pale even when his neck was waa fixed ready to receive the fatal knife two seconds after the decapitation the cheeks checks were still rosy the eyes wido wide open with moderately dilated pupils the mouth firmly closed when a finger was placed close to ono one eye fo aio change of expression took place but on touching an eye or the tips of the lashes during the first five seconds the be lids closed just as in life this reflex could not be excited from ohp hp sixth second after decapitation the jaws were lightly closed and could not be opened by manual force no similar muscular contraction could be detected in the trunk or extremities one minute after death the face ace began befanto to turn pale the trunk remained flaccid the carotids cat caroti atida ds continuing to throw out blood remaining in the circulatory area at the end ot of four minutes the face was quite pale tho the upper tipper lids were half closed the jaws less firmly clenched than before the knife passed through the lovar part of the fourth ceri cenizal ica 1 verlegia ver lebia a these researches show that not a trace of consciousness remains two seconds second ii after beheading that reflex movement of the cornea can be excited for two sl seconds that the heart may beat for an hour bour the auricles euricles au continuing to pulsate alone for half that period and that putting aside the reflex movements of the eyelid the contraction of the jaws and the jets of blood from the carotids caroti ds it seemed in this case as though hough a corpse had been decapitated 0 o inert were the remains of the convict drs regnard and loye note how bow calm wi nn tree free even from physiological bealli dea h struggle symptoms is death by the guillotine there is not even asphyxia british medical edical II journal |