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no interference with the brain or any pressure on the brain, no
doctor could tell that long after death whether or not the wound
would have produced unconsciousness, because the skull may be broken
and considerable hemorrhage and depression of bone without any loss of
memory even. There is no outside physical indication of any sort
that a man could find that can tell whether it produced unconscious-
ness or not. If the body was found 8 or 10 or 12 hours after death
with that wound and some blood appears to have flowed out of the
wound, that wound would have been inflicted before or after death,
the blood might flow from a wound inflicted after death from one
to six or eight or ten hours by gravity. If the wound was made dur-
ing life by a sharp instrument I would expect it to bleed. A live
body bleeds more than a corpse. If under the above conditions only
a visual examination of the lungs was made and no congestion was
found, it could not be stated with certainty whether or not the
person died from strangulation. If in such a subject I removed the
stomach and found in it wheat bread and cabbage partly digested
like that (State's Exhibit G), and 33 degrees of acidity in the
stomach and very little liquids or anything in the smaller intestine
and feces some 5 or 6 feet further down, and if the stomach was taken
from the body 9 days after death after it had been embalmed with a
preparation containing 5% formaldehyde, neither I nor anybody else
could give an intelligent opinion of how long that cabbage and
wheat bread had been in the stomach before death. The digestion of
carbo-hydrates begins in the mouth. The more cabbage and wheat bread
are masticated the more easily it is digested. Cabbage chewed like
that (State's Exhibit G) would take longer to digest. It is liable
to stay in the stomach 3, 4 or 5 hours, and longer if it is stopped
up by the pyloris, and when food is not chewed thoroughly, it causes
irritation and constriction, and so the stomach would retain the
food longer. Some times cabbage passes out of the body whole. No
dependable opinion could be given as to the time that cabbage had
been in the stomach from the conditions of acidity or

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