Abstract Introduction Lung ventilation is a standard sign of life in newborns. Post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) highly sensitive to the presence gas body including lungs. Current examinations determine pulmonary status newborns are flotation test and histology. The purpose this study was compare accuracy PMCT with for determining lung histological control as reference standard. A cut-off ...

The word ‘‘sepsis’’ has its origins in the word ‘‘σήψις’’, which is the original Greek word for decomposition or putrefaction, and has been used in that context since before Hippocrates [1, 2]. However, although the word, sepsis, has been used for more than 2700 years, it is only relatively recently that we have begun to understand the pathophysiology of sepsis in any depth [3]. With this new i...

Considerable salt-soluble protein degradation was observed in pork muscle inoculated with Pseudomonas fragi. During a 20-day incubation period at 10 C, the samples proceeded to rank spoilage or putrefaction. There was a large decrease in the salt-soluble protein fraction and a corresponding increase in nonprotein nitrogen. Disc gel electrophoretic patterns showed that breakdown of the salt-solu...

This study was conducted to identify some of ante and post-mortem surface defects in Sudanese raw sheep and goat skins and to evaluate the effect of some of these defects on some of the key physical properties of the leather produced. The results indicated that most of the ante-mortem defects disappear during the tannage, re-tannage and finishing operations. However some defects remain visible ...

A sudden outbreak of disease occurred after a broiler flock being reared on a battery cage was treated of chronic respiratory disease. The disease was marked by a short duration, high case fatality, rapid putrefaction and severe necrosis of the abdominal region evidenced by dark areas on the skin. There were areas of gas crepitation on the leg region. Necropsy revealed accumulation of red seros...

This article argues that balm, or balsam, was, by the late medieval period, believed to be a panacea, capable of healing wounds and illnesses, and also preventing putrefaction. Natural history and pharmacological texts on balm from the ancient and late antique periods emphasized specific qualities of balm, especially its heat; these were condensed and repeated in medieval encyclopedias. The rar...

! A 76-year old man was found lying on his carpet after being dead for several weeks. When his decomposing body was removed, putrefaction stains had left an image of his body on the carpet. Although there is no suggestion that the Shroud received its image in this way, this paper adds to the very small number of cases in which the image of a dead person has been left naturally on the surface it...

on the part of the ecclesiastics who ran the hospitals, and handicapped by erroneous views on the causation of the disease and its therapy. It was not plague, and therefore plague precautions, with their dire economic consequences, were not recommended; yet the fear that it might become plague always troubled them. Besides, the officials, often insulated from the lower classes, could not believ...