TY - JOUR T1 - Molten gold was poured down his throat until his bowels burst JF - Journal of Clinical Pathology JO - J Clin Pathol SP - 157 LP - 157 DO - 10.1136/jcp.56.2.157 VL - 56 IS - 2 AU - F R W van de Goot AU - R L ten Berge AU - R Vos Y1 - 2003/02/01 UR - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/56/2/157.abstract N2 - In 1599, a Spanish governor in early colonial Ecuador suffered this fate. Native Indians of the Jivaro tribe, unscrupulously taxed in their gold trade, attacked the settlement of Logrono and executed the gold hungry governor by pouring molten gold down his throat.1 Pouring hot liquids or metals, such as lead or gold, into the mouth of a victim was a practice used on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, by the Romans and the Spanish Inquisition among others.2Several sources mention … ER -