Institute of Legal Medicine, Freiburg University Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany.
Forensic Sci Int. 2011 Jun 15;209(1-3):e11-5. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.03.024. Epub 2011 Apr 15.
An 88-year-old woman committed suicide by drinking a toxic amount of highly concentrated alcohol and setting two rooms of her flat on fire. As there was not enough oxygen, the fire went out, however. At autopsy, no thermal lesions were found on the body, but soot depositions in the airways and a COHb value of 14% pointed to the inhalation of fire fumes. The ethanol concentration in femoral blood was 6.62 per mille. The gastric mucosa was fixed by the ingested alcohol and showed hardly any autolytic changes despite a post-mortem interval of five days. Congener analysis of the gastric contents and the femoral blood indicated the uptake of a fruit distillate or its foreshot.
一位 88 岁的女性因饮用大量高浓度酒精并点燃其公寓的两个房间而自杀。然而，由于氧气不足，火势很快熄灭。尸检时，尸体上未发现热损伤，但气道中有烟尘沉积，COHb 值为 14%，提示吸入了火灾烟雾。股动脉血液中的乙醇浓度为 6.62‰。胃黏膜因摄入的酒精而固定，尽管死后间隔了五天，但几乎没有自溶变化。胃内容物和股动脉血液的同系物分析表明，摄入了水果蒸馏液或其头馏分。
