[Under the circumstances this was positively murderous. Acknowledging to such treatment forces me to declare that the witness is incompetent, on the ground that no one has a right to incriminate himself. Nothing but the most positive malpractice could have brought a case of this kind to need gastric ravage, at this age and stage of the disease.]
"Upon the sixth day of the disease the picture changed."
[It is impossible for any case to arrive at this state of maturation in six days, if allowed to take its own course.]
"The complexion became sallow, the face elongated, the eyes hollow; the pulse was 140, small, but quite regular; the temperature was 101.3 degree F.;"
[The great discrepancy between the pulse and temperature was caused by the opium.]
"there was clammy perspiration and a cool skin, the hands were cold; frequently slight eructations occurred and, now and then, ineffectual or mild paroxysms of vomiting of a greenish yellow material with a slight fecal odor."
[All these symptoms were positively unnecessary. They were built by food end drugs.]
"The mind was clear; there was little pain."
[There was no reason why the mind should not be clear, and there should have been no pain after the third day.]
"The abdomen became somewhat softer, much less painful, and was readily palpated and percussed; there was a distinct resistance about the size of a hand, quite firm, and not fluctuating, and accompanied by marked dullness, around McBurney's point and downward, and only in this region severe stabbing pain; in other areas no dullness."