Q. Are the symptoms that appeared after the medicine was given, such as necessarily conclude that the person had taken poison?
A. Certainly not.
Q. If an apoplexy had come on, would not the symptoms have been nearly or somewhat similar?
A. Very much the same.
Q. Have you ever known or heard of a young subject dying of an apoplectic or epileptic fit?
A. Certainly; but with regard to the apoplexy not so frequent, young subjects will perhaps die more frequently of epilepsies than old ones; children are dying every day from teething, which is a species of epilepsy arising from an irritation.
Q. Did you ever in your practice, know an instance of laurel-water being given to a human subject?
A. No, never.
Q. Is any certain analogy to be drawn from the effects of any species of poison upon an animal of the brute creation, to that it may have upon a human subject?
A. As far as my experience goes, which is not a very confined one, because I have poisoned some thousands of animals, they are very nearly the same, opium for instance will poison a dog similar to a man; arsenic will have very near the same effect upon a dog, as it would have, I take it for granted, upon a man; I know something of the effects of them, and I believe their operations will be nearly similar.