Face of a man showing post mortem discolouration

  • Mark, Leonard Portal
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Face of a man showing post mortem discolouration. St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives & Museum. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Watercolour drawing of the face of a man to show the appearance caused by very rapid post-mortem decomposition. It was made thirty-six hours after death during the hot weather of the summer of 1893 (June 13th). The man fell from a scaffold, and one of the poles entered the rectum, causing rupture of the liver and other severe internal injuries.

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