{"id":7681,"date":"2021-09-08T19:54:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T00:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2023-12-09T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T22:42:22","slug":"mfdj-09-08-2021-careless-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=7681","title":{"rendered":"MFDJ 09\/08\/2021: Careless Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Careless Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

Giovanni Maria Lancisi, first physician to Pope Clement IX, had once seen a presumed corpse sit up in his coffin during a funeral mass in a church in Rome, and this naturally made him doubt the current principles for declaring people dead. In a treatise on sudden death, published in 1707, he pointed out that errors such as this one were due not to deficiency of the medical art but to the carelessness of certain practitioners, who abandoned their patients to the mortuary bearers too early. He suggested an impressive list of tests to be used in situations when there was an uncertainty whether life was extinct: smelling salts, sneezing powder, tufts of wool to be put into the nostrils and a dry mirror put before the mouth to test for respiration, and a full goblet of water on the chest to test for motion of the diaphragm. The pulse was of paramount importance as a sign of death, but the physician should take care not to feel his own pulse by mistake, and thus declare a corpse to be still living.<\/p>\n

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\nLancisi: Kind of obsessed with the nose, don’t you think?<\/em><\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear<\/a><\/p>\n

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Corpse Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

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\nThe body of a woman, Madame Bertrand, lying on the floor of a kitchen, her head resting under a cabinet near a pipe. The woman’s head is back with her chin tilted up to expose lacerations on her throat. Bertrand was murdered by Albert-Alfred Peugniez along with her nephew Octave-Victor Dhaut.<\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0Crime Album Stories<\/a><\/p>\n

High Resolution Image available at\u00a0The J. Paul Getty Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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