WHAT CAUSES DEATH RATTLE.
Emergency Physician Explains While
Working on Dying Man.
It was while William Montgomery, of Joy and Liberty streets, who was fatally shot by his wife, lay dying in the emergency hospital last night, that one of the physicians was asked what caused the "death rattle."
"There are two possible causes," the physician replied. "One is the lodgement of saliva in the throat and the other is the flabbiness of the throat muscles just before the approach of death. the relaxation of the throat muscles, along with the falling of the tongue into the throat, is the most common cause of the rattle. If a dying man was turned over on his stomach, there would be no rattle to his throat.
