The medical aspects of death, and the medical aspects of the human mind

part in many cases of violent death, and in those remarkable instances

of disease in which life is extinguished with fearful rapidity.

There are many accidents in which there is little loss of blood; and yet the injury is great, and its consequences terrible. The sufferer turns pale--his countenance changes, and he feels that he is fatally wounded. Sickness and complete prostr...