On the Evidence of Apoplectic Death, and of Death by Smothering, in Persons Found Dead, with Notice of a Case of Death under Suspicious Circumstances

By the ordinary use of the word as nearly synonymous with the generic term coma, they are naturally led to believe, that the so-called simple or congestive apoplexy, and the so-called serous apoplexy, stand on the same footing with respect to frequency and reality as hemorrhage of the brain?which is plainly the proper type and normal form of apoplexy. The slight significance of congestion of the substance of the brain, or of serous effusion in the ventricles, as compared to the 1852.] DR SELLER ON APOPLECTIC DEATH, ETC. 223 presence of an actual extravasation of blood, in questions of the kind before us, will become evident at once by putting these seve- ral cases in the following form.

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