Status lymphaticus: Sudden death in children from “visitation of God” to cot death

Status lymphaticus: sudden death in children from "visitation of God" to cot death.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in cases of sudden death, coroners' verdicts of death by "visitation of God" became increasingly popular. This reflected growing reluctance to blame the dead person in a verdict of felo de se. Increasingly, sudden deaths were attributed to human accident.' By the nineteenth century, as society became more secular and Christian ideas more sophisti...

Cot mattresses and sudden infant death syndrome.

Sudden death due to the Acetone toxicity

Propanone is a volatile liquid that can be absorbed by ingestion, inhalation, dermal and is distributed throughout the body. In this study, a fatal case involving acetone poisoning, who was worked in the Red Crescent Medical Center is presented. The deceased was found four hours after death. He was a 25-year-old male nurse and not married. There are the history of smoking since four years ago, ...

Sudden unexpected death in infants ("cot death"). Report of a collaborative study in northern Ireland.

INFANTS HAVE always been known to die suddenly and unexpectedly in bed, their deaths being formerly ascribed to 'mechanical suffocation' by clothing or by 'overlaying' of which there are presumptive examples from early literature (I Kings, 3:19). Early investigators (e.g. Templeman, 1892) stressed this danger and in Ireland the powerful temperance lobby obtained a clause (sect. 13) in the 1908 ...

Sudden Cardiac Death in Children

Sudden cardiac death is defined as unexpected death from cardiac causes early after or without the onset of symptoms. Having in mind that acute myocarditis may be a rare cause of sudden cardiac death in children, we have undertaken the following study: clinical, macroscopical and histopathological characteristics of the myocardium of two autopsied children who died suddenly. A number of myocard...