Question.—“Was that your opinion at the time?”
Answer.—“It was. We could infer nothing else.”
Question.—“Have you not said that the quantity of antimony you found was not sufficient to account for death?”
Answer.—“Certainly. If a man takes antimony he first vomits, and then a part of the antimony goes out of the body; some may escape from the bowels. A great deal passes at once into the blood by absorption, and is carried out by the urine.”
Question.—“Can you say upon your oath that from the traces in Cook’s body you were justified in stating your opinion that death was caused by antimony?”
Answer.—“Yes; perfectly and distinctly. That which is found in a dead body is not the slightest criterion as to what the man took when alive.”
Question.—“When you gave your opinion that Cook died from the effects of antimony, had you any reason to think that an undue quantity had been administered?”
Answer.—“I could not tell. People may die from large or small quantities; the quantity found in the body was no criterion as to how much he had taken.”
Question.—“May not the injudicious use of a quack medicine containing antimony, the injudicious use of James’s powders, account for the antimony you found in the body?”
Answer.—“Yes; the injudicious use of any antimonial medicine would account for it.”