Book 1 Chapter 20 The Trial - The Medical Report

2. He looked about 40 years of age.

3. The body was of a swollen appearance.

4. The flesh was of a greenish colour, with dark spots in several
places.

5. The skin was raised in blisters of different sizes and in
places had come off in large pieces.

6. The hair was chestnut; it was thick, and separated easily from
the skin when touched.

7. The eye-balls protruded from their sockets and the cornea had
grown dim.

8. Out of the nostrils, both ears, and the mouth oozed serous
liquid; the mouth was half open.

9. The neck had almost disappeared, owing to the swelling of the
face and chest."

And so on and so on.

Four pages were covered with the 27 paragraphs describing all the
details of the external examination of the enormous, fat,
swollen, and decomposing body of the merchant who had been making
merry in the town. The indefinite loathing that Nekhludoff felt
was increased by the description of the corpse. Katusha's life,
and the scrum oozing from the nostrils of the corpse, and the
eyes that protruded out of their sockets, and his own treatment
of her--all seemed to belong to the same order of things, and he
felt surrounded and wholly absorbed by things of the same nature.

When the reading of the report of the external examination was
ended, the president heaved a sigh and raised his hand, hoping it
was finished; but the secretary at once went on to the
description of the internal examination. The president's head
again dropped into his hand and he shut his eyes. The merchant
next to Nekhludoff could hardly keep awake, and now and then his
body swayed to and fro. The prisoners and the gendarmes sat
perfectly quiet.