In all cases?—No, not in all cases. But in the other case, for two hours before she died, when she could speak, she begged them not to touch her.
Did she not ask to have her legs rubbed?—That was when the attack was slight, not during the fatal attack.
After the paroxysms had set in, did she not request to be rubbed?—She did before the convulsions came on; she liked to have her feet and legs rubbed.
Afterwards she could not bear it, because it caused a recurrence?—Yes.
That was in consequence of the twitchings, was it not?—I think not. It is stated by all the witnesses she begged she might not be touched.
But for that one thing, that the paroxysms came on so soon after the first premonitory symptom, is there one single point in which this differs from strychnia tetanus?—The power of swallowing so lately.
On what does it depend, the inability to swallow?—From the inability to move the jaw.
I ask you whether it is not a fact that, unlike as in natural tetanus, in tetanus from strychnia lockjaw is not the last symptom, and very often never sets in at all?—I have never seen an instance in which it does not make its appearance.
T. Nunneley
Is it the last?—I do not deny that it may be.