The Art of Cross-Examination / With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses in Some Celebrated Cases

by Francis L. Wellman

Witness. "Yes, sir."

Counsel. "When in that article you said that Charcot taught you to stand pain, was there any truth in that?"

Witness. "No."

Counsel. "Did you as a matter of fact learn to stand pain?"

Witness. "No."

Counsel. "When you said in this article that Charcot began by sticking pins and knives into you little by little, so as to accustom you to standing pain, was that all fiction?"

Witness. "Yes, sir."

Counsel. "When you wrote that Charcot taught you to reduce your respirations to two a minute, so as to make your body insensible to pain, was that fiction?"

Witness. "Purely imagination."