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New Sign Of Death

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
November
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

- The followingimportant discovery is cnlculatedto be oí great service in cases of suspected death. The commun catión was latcly made to the Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris, by M. Ripault,who indirecting the attention of members lo the discovery, observed, t'at it consisied in perfect flaccidity of the iris when the globe of the eye is compressed in two opposite directions. - If the individual be living, thé pupil retains its circular form, notwithslanding the compression ; if dead, the nperturc becomes irregular, and the circular form is lost. Theso two lines contain thirty six eros of Long Primer type.