Q. So far for the external appearance. Now I shall be glad to know whether all the appearances you speak of in the face, the protuberance of the tongue, and the lips being swelled and retracted, whether those are not all signs of putrefaction?
A. I really don’t know that they are.
Q. I do not mean to give you any offence, but I beg leave to ask whether you have been much used to anatomical dissection?
A. I have been as far as persons not particularly intended for anatomical pursuits—I am not a professor of anatomy.
Q. Did you ever attend the dissection of a human body that was poisoned, or suspected to have been poisoned?
A. Never.
Q. From the external appearances of the different parts of the body you draw no kind of conclusion or inference, and form no opinion?
A. No, I don’t form any strong opinion from them.
Q. How were the appearances when the cavity of the abdomen was opened?
A. I have described them in general.