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Show Child's Death Result of Inhaling Feather An inquest was held recently on a child, aged five months, who died under unusual circumstances, says the London correspondent of the Journal of the American Medical Association. As-sociation. The child was under the care of a foster mother, who stated that it was well until one evening she heard it move and, on going to the child, found it lying on its face and looking unnatural. When medical aid arrived the child was dead. The necropsy was performed by the government gov-ernment pathologist, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, who said the child was a fine one and appeared to have been well cared for. He found a feather in the child's larynx and attributed death to laryngeal shock, which he said was rare. Apparently the child got the feather in its mouth and then inhaled it. Death was not attributed at-tributed to asphyxia. |