Answer.—“Yes.”
Question.—“Can that have been a case of ophisthotonos?”
Answer.—“It may have been.”
Question.—“Are not the colour tests of strychnia so uncertain and fallacious that they cannot be depended upon?”
Answer.—“Yes, unless you first get the strychnia in a visible and tangible form.”
Question.—“Is it not impossible to get it so from the stomach?”
Answer.—“It is not impossible; it depends upon the quantity which remains there.”
Question.—“You do not agree that the fiftieth part of a grain might be discovered?”
Answer.—“I think not.”
Question.—“Nor even half a grain?”