Counsel. "You have stated, have you not, that the symptoms of morphine poisoning cannot be told with positiveness?"
Witness. "Yes, sir."
Counsel. "You said you based that opinion upon your own experience, and it now turns out you have seen but one case in twenty years."
Witness. "I also base it upon my reading."
Counsel (becoming almost contemptuous in manner). "Is your reading confined to your own book?"
Witness (excitedly). "No, sir; I say no."
Counsel (calmly). "But I presume you embodied in your own book the results of your reading, did you not?"
Witness (a little apprehensively). "I tried to, sir."
It must be explained here that the attending physicians had said that the pupils of the eyes of Helen Potts were contracted to a pin-point, so much so as to be practically unrecognizable, and symmetrically contracted—that this symptom was the one invariably present in coma from morphine poisoning, and distinguished it from all other forms of death, whereas in the coma of kidney disease one pupil would be dilated and the other contracted; they would be unsymmetrical.