Death due to Excessive Haemorrhage
Death due to sudden and excessive haemorrhage or anemia from wounds of the large blood vessels, or internal organ such as lungs, spleen (or) from bursting of an aneurysm or a varicose vein.
Shock resulting from:
- Sudden fright
- Sudden blows on the heart or on the epigastrium
- Drinking large quantity of cold water → when in a heated condition extensive injuries to the spine or other parts of the body
- Sudden evacuation of the natural or pathological fluids from the body
- Sudden pressure
- Severe exposure to cold
Asthenia due to deficient power of the heart muscle as in fatty degeneration of the heart or aorta regurgitation or poisoning
Exhausting Diseases
- Mucous membrane looks pallor
- Eye are dilated pupils, dimness of vision
- Restlessness
- Air hunger and gasping respiration
- Nausea or vomiting
- Marked fall in Blood pressure due to reflex vasodilation.
Symptoms of Anemia
- Rapid pulse in Asthenia.
- Pulse-Slow and Weak and Fluttering in Anaemia.
- Slight delirium, insensibility and convulsions precede death.
- In collapse, the animal retains consciousness though the condition attended with failure of the heart’s action.
Postmortem Findings
- Heart: Found to be contrated, chambers empty-when death due to anaemia. Both charmers contain blood in case of death due to asthenia.
- Lungs, brain and abdominal organs are found pale.
