A Case of Carbolic Acid Poisoning

23rd July, 4-55. p.m.? Weather, cloudy and moist. Body of an adult, man about 36, well nourished. Jaws firmly closed. Slight rigidity in the knee joints, none in the elbows. Whitish froth escaping freely through the left nostril and slightly from the mouth. Superficial veins of the body turgid; dark venous looking liquid blood flowed out, as some of them were cut while opening the chest. Thoracic Viscera.?Lun<rs extremely congested, and the anterior lobes completely hiding the pericardium from view. Inferior lobes almost in a state of hepatization. On opening the sac of the pericardium, about an ounce of serum was found in it. Heart contracted, full; on opening the cavities in either side, they were found gorged with dark liquid blood ; no coagula present, valves healthy ; no alcoholic odour, or odour of any kind present either in the blood, heart, or lungs. Abdominal Viscera ?General congestion of all the viscera. Liver very much enlarged, and reaching to about three inches below the margin of the ribs. Gall bladder distended with bile. Mesenteric vessels turgid with blood, Spleen also enlarged, and containing a large quantity of blood. The stomach on being cut open from without, a hard resisting feeling was communicated to the scalpel as it cut through the mucous membrane, which