1. _In the Body generally._--Marked general emaciation of the body. The skin is dry and shrivelled, sometimes more or less covered with unhealthy-looking pimples, the muscles soft, reduced in size, and free from fat. A peculiar fœtid acrid odour is given off from the body. 2. _In the Solid Viscera of the Thorax and Abdomen._--The liver is small, the gall-bladder distended with bile, and the heart and kidneys deprived of any surrounding fat. All the internal organs are shrivelled and bloodless. 3. _In the Stomach and Intestines._--The stomach in some cases is quite healthy, but more or less stained with bile; in others it is found collapsed, contracted, empty, and the mucous membrane more or less ulcerated. The intestines are thin, contracted, empty, and so shrunken that the canal is almost obliterated. According to the late Dr. Duncan, the intestines are frequently found inflamed and ulcerated. DEATH FROM COLD This form of death is rare in England, but is more common in countries where the winters are severe. Anything that depresses the vital powers renders the individual more or less susceptible to cold; such, for instance, as drunkenness, previous illness, or deficiency in the amount of food. The following _post-mortem_ appearances are given by Ogston, who holds that they point, in the absence of any other obvious cause of death, “if not with absolute certainty, yet with high probability,” to death caused by cold: 1. An arterial hue of the blood generally, except when viewed in mass within the heart; the presence of this coloration not having been noted in two instances. 2. An unusual accumulation of blood, as in Quelmalz and Cappel‘s cases, on both sides of the heart, and in the larger blood-vessels of the chest, arterial and venous. 3. Pallor of the general surface of the body, and anæmia of the viscera most largely supplied with blood. The only exceptions to this were moderate congestion of the brain in three cases, and of the liver in seven of them. 4. Irregular and diffused dusky-red patches--“frost erythems”--on limited portions of the exterior of the bodies, encountered in non-dependent parts, these patches contrasting forcibly with the pallor of the skin and general surface. These signs are not so well marked in children as in adults. The late Sir Benjamin Brodie considered that the effect of cold is to destroy the principle of vitality equally in every part, and that it does not exclusively disturb the functions of any particular organ. The fact of a body being found frozen is no proof that death has been brought about by cold.