Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 224
? 224 published La Passion de N. S. Jesus Christ selon le Chirugien (its English translation is titled ‘A Doctor at Calvary’). His research concluded as follows: 1. The blood which flowed from the wounds coagulated on the skin and was transferred to the cloth by direct contact on the Shroud. 2. He observed as many as 120 wounds caused by the striking of a double-thonged flagrum which caused scourging on the body. 3. Marks caused by the crown of thorns, wounds caused by carry- ing the crucifix and appearing on the left shoulder blade, across the right shoulder and the knees could not have been faked on the Shroud. 4. Nails were driven not through the palms but through the fleshy space bounded by bones in the wrist. By studying the angle of flow of blood from the wrist wounds, he determined that the body had alternately taken two different positions on the cross indicating that the body had raised itself slightly from time to time, using the feet as a fulcrum. 5. Death was caused through asphyxiation and tetany. According to the doctor, the blade of the lance had entered the body above the sixth rib, penetrated the pleura (a serous membrane envel- oping the lung), the right lung, puncturing the pericardium (a membranous sac enclosing the heart) and finally piercing the right auricle of the heart itself. Blood flowed from the inferior