Q. Did you look at the stomach?
A. Yes.
Q. As Sir Theodosius Boughton is represented to have died in a few minutes after taking this medicine, did you with correctness and attention examine the stomach?
A. The contents of the stomach were about a spoonful and an half, or a couple of ounces of a slimy reddish liquor, which I rubbed between my finger and thumb, and it contained no gritty substance that I could perceive.
Q. Is it not usual to find some such quantity of liquor in the stomach?
A. The stomach after death must contain something more or less according to different circumstances.
Q. You said the stomach and the orifice of it and the small arch of it bore the appearance of inflammation; pray is not inflammation and appearance of inflammation much the same thing.
A. All that I have to say upon the present business is I perhaps don’t know the cause of inflammation; but there is an appearance of inflammation upon the stomach and bowels, owing to an injection of blood into the veinous system, the veins being full of blood, put on a red appearance.
Q. If you will not take upon you to say what is the cause, what are the signs of inflammation?
A. An appearance of redness, sometimes but not always attended with pain, and sometimes throbbing.