T. Nunneley
Do you attach any importance to the emphysema?—It is of two kinds. One consists in a dilatation of the cells, the other in a rupture by which the air, not being in the cells, passes amongst them.
I suppose you say it was not from the rupture of the cells here?—That I inferred from the description given.
Have you not found emphysema in the cases of the animals that have died?—Yes. It has always been from a rupture of the cells. It could be in no other way.
What is there in the statement of witnesses which makes you think there was emphysema of the other sort?—There was during life a diseased condition of the lungs.
I am speaking of the appearance of the lungs after death?—I must put the whole together.
Would it not have been desirable to know whether this emphysema was natural or whether it was from rupture? We heard the witnesses here who made the post-mortem examination?—If the question had been put to them.
But you were advising my friends throughout, while Dr. Harland was here, and you heard what he said. Did it occur to you it was proper to ask him what was the nature of those?—No, because I heard (which was sufficient to my mind) that disease had existed. The question was put, as to the disease, to Dr. Savage.
I am speaking of this emphysema?—It did not occur to me.
You have told us the various symptoms about this gentleman, from which you gather he was of a delicate constitution. To which do you ascribe these convulsions of which he died?—Not to any.