0707 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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alfactories act as a stimulant to the salivary glands.

DR.JOHN FUNK,Sworn for the State in rebuttal.

I am Professor of Pathology and Bacteriologist I was shown
by Dr.Harris, sections from the vaginal wall of Mary Phagan,
sections taken near the skin service. I didn't see sections from
the stomach or the contents. These sections showed that the
epithelium wall was torn off at points immediately beneath that
covering in the tissues below, and there was infiltrated pressure
of blood. They were you might say engorged, and the white blood
cells-in those-blood vessels were more numerous than you will
find in a normal blood vessel. The blood vessels at some distance
from the torn point were not so engorged, to the same extent as
those blood vessels immediately in the vicinity of the hemorrhage.
Those blood vessels were larger than they should be under normal
circumstances, as compared with the blood vessels in the vicinity
of the tear. You couldn't tell about any discoloration,but there
was blood there. It is reasonable to suppose that there was swell-
ing there because of the infiltrated-pressure of the blood in the
tissues. Those conditions must have been produced prior to death,
because the blood could not invade the tissues after death.
If a young lady, between thirteen and fourteen years old eats at
eleven thirty A.M. a normal meal of bread and cabbage on a Saturday
and at 3 A.M. Sunday morning she is found with a cord around her
neck, the skin indented, the nails and flesh cyanotic, the tongue
out and swollen, blue nails, everything indicating that she had
been strangled to death, that rigor mortis had set in, and accord-
ing to the best authorities had probably progressed from sixteen
to twenty hours, and she was laying face down when found, and
gravity had forced the blood into that part of the body next to
the ground, that it had discolored her features, that immediately
thereafter, between ten and two o'clock she was embalmed with a