Q. Did you ever convey poison immediately into the stomach?
Dr. Rattray. Do you mean by perforation through the ribs?
Mr. Newnham. Yes.
Dr. Rattray. I never have.
Q. Did you ever convey any into the veins of an animal?
A. I never have.
Q. Did you observe or smell that liquor which came out of the stomach?
A. I could not avoid smelling it.
Q. Had it the same offensive smell?
A. It in general had; one could not expect any smell but partaking of that general putrefaction of the body; but I had a particular taste in my mouth at that time, a kind of biting acrimony upon my tongue. And I have in all the experiments I have made with laurel-water, always had the same taste, from breathing over the water, a biting upon my tongue, and sometimes a bitter taste upon the upper part of the fauces.