Can you recollect whether you did or did not state, before the Gentlemen of the Jury, that the appearances of the stomach were such as proceeded from a natural cause?—No, certainly not.
You did however desire that it might be postponed two days, that you might make some experiments on the contents of the stomach?—Yes, Sir.
Are persons, particularly women, of an elderly time of life, more subject to the attack of Cholera Morbus, than people who are young?—There is very little difference.
The age of the person does not predispose him or her more to that complaint, than a youthful person?—No, I don’t think it does; it is rather the contrary.
You say there was nothing in the chamber vessel but water that had been poured in, with which you had washed some parts of the stomach?—I poured the water in myself, at a time when I believe it was empty.
Mr. Sergt. Pell—So that the effect of it would be only to give more trouble in evaporating a greater quantity of fluid, it having been made before.
(Re-examined by Mr. Sergt. Lens.)
You have been asked several questions about the nature of Cholera Morbus; do you change your opinion, in any respect, as to this not being Cholera Morbus that occasioned the death?—I do not.
You have been asked particularly about a third test that you did not make use of; I wish to ask you how it happened that you did not resort to that test as well as to the others?—There was not sufficient left so as to ascertain it accurately.
So that that last test would not be so proper as the others?—The tests I used would detect a more minute portion of arsenic, and therefore were more proper for that occasion, as I found that there could not be much arsenic in the fluid, from the appearances produced by these tests.