Cases Illustrating the Diverse Appearances Found on Postmortem Examination of the Drowned

By Surgeon-Major E. G, RUSSELL. M.B., B. Sc., London, Offg. Police Surgeon, Calcutta. On 22nd August 1888, five native passengers were drowned while proceeding to a s|ii|> in the the Hooghly river. The bout conveying them fouled 5i buoy, capsized, and sunk. When the bout wus recovered uiul righted, three men were found dead beneath it. These men had died by the same deathdrowning; and ut the sume time the bodies were recovered together after the same period of imniersion, and were examined together ; thus from beginning to end they had been under exactly similar conditions, yet there were very marked differences in the state of preservation of the bodies aud in the post mortem appeaiv