The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-11 00:00:00

DEATH OF ANOTHER FEMALE PATIENT
OF Mn. ST. JOHN LONG.

CORONER'S INQUEST ON MRS. LLOYD.
Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, J. H.
GELL, Esq. and a highly respectable Jury assembled
at the Wilton Aims, Kinnerton-street, Knights.
bridge, to inquire into the death of Mrs. Cone
Campbell Lloyd, aged forty-eight, the wife of Cap.
rain Edward Lloyd, of the Royal Navy, whose
death was alleged to have been occasioned by the
treatment she experienced under the hands of Mr.
St. John Long, of Harley-street.
The inquiry excited the most intense interest, and
the Jury-room was crowded to excess, principally
by gentlemen of the medical profession, anxious to
hear the result of the proceedings.
Mr. Wheatley, a barrister, attended on behalf of
the family of Mrs. Lloyd; and Mr.Wooller attended
to watch the proceedings for Mr. St. John Long.
After the Jury were impanelled, they proceeded
to view the body of the unfortunate lady, at her
lodgings, No. 33, 'Wilton-place, and on their return
the following evidence was adduced :
Mr. G. Vance, of No. 27, Sackville-street, Picea-
dilly,surgeon—l visited Mrs. Lloyd on the 21st Oct.
last, which, as I was informed by her medical at-
tendant, Mr. Campbell, was about ten days from the
commencement of her illness. Mrs. Lloyd informed
me that she had inhaled from a tube a few times at
Mr. St. John Long's, in Harley street, and had been
rubbed on the chest with a liniment twice ; she did
not say who rubbed her ; the first rubbing, she
said, produced no inconvenience, but the second a
seine of binning heat ; she stated that she was quite
well at the time, and had not suffered any important
indisposition for three years, which was the time I
had attended her; from the inhalation it appeared
to me that her tongue, mouth, and fauces had
eroded ; on examining her chest I found a sloughing
sore of great extent (where she had, by her own
account, been rubbed with a liniment), which ex-
tended from the arm-pits across the hest in one
direction, and from the collar-bones above; under
the nipples, in the other direction ; in the middle of
this sore, the soft parts covering the breastbone
were black and dead, but towards the circumference
there was a little appearance of health, and the mor-
tified parts were separating from the living ; the
stomach was much disturbed, and she was in a state
of great exhaustion and despondency, frequently ex-
pressing a desire to the ; in a day or two after my
attendance some of the constitutional distress (by
which I mean fever and irritation, as well as the
sickness of the stomach) subsided in a degree, and
her spirits revived; the dead parts began to separate
more freely, and in a correspondence with her
friends I gave encouraging hope* of her amends
rent ; no granulations, however, appearing in the
clean parts of the sore, and the surface having be-
come dry and flabby, exhibiting the appearance of
the dissected parts of a dead body, 1 imparted to
her friends the certainty of her death.
By Mr. Wheatley—Mr. Campbell, a surgeon,
and myself, together and separately, removed masses
of putrid flesh. The breast-bone was found bare,
and I believe that if the slough had been freely
thrown off, the cartilages oldie ribs would have been
exposed also.
The deceased gradually grew weaker, and died on
Monday morning the Bth of November.
Mr. Wheatley—Can you form any judgment as
to the cause of the death of the lady ? Mr. Vance—
In my opimian the application of some corrosive
matter, applied to the parts which I found in a state
of mortification, was the cause of her death.
Mr. Vance ridded, that about three years ago he
attended Mrs. Lloyd for an affection of the throat,
which he considered to be globtrs hyslericus. It
was a nervous complaint, but soon disappeared.
This was the only disease which he observed in
Mrs. Lloyd ; she was, in all other respects, a stout
woman, very richly covered with fat. He had never
known any disease of that nature terminate fatally.
Mrs. Lloyd said, that she had been persuaded to ap-
ply to Mr. Long.
111 r. Brodie, of No. 16, Saville-row, surgeon,
morn—l saw Mrs. Lloyd last Friday week with Mr.
Vance. The witness here gave a similar description
of the wound as Mr. Vance did. I should think that
any mineral acid or arsenical application would pro-
duce such an effect ; but I do not mean to say that
either of these produced the effects in the present
instance—it would not have been proper or prudent
to make any application that would produce such
effects on persons labouring under globus hystericus;
the effects produced, such as I have described, were
in my opinion sufficient to have occasioned death ; I
would not intentionally have produced such effects
for any complaint with which I am acquainted; I
do not remember having seen the satne mischief
produced by any local application that had been used
as a remedy, excepting in the case of the lute Miss

Cushin. -
By Mr. Wooler—ln some cases the applications
in common use produce effects more violent than in
other cases, and beyond what the practitioner may
have intended.
Mr. Campbell, surgeon, of 23, Wilton-place,
said—About the Ist of October, Mrs. Lloyd and
'her family came on a visit to my mother's house,
and she appeared to be in sound bodily health.
On the 12th of October I was requested to
sea her, as she was dangerously ill. She corn-
planted of pain on her cheat ; on examining which
I found the wound which has been described.
Mrs. Lloyd stated to me that she had consulted Mr.
St. John Long for an affection of the throat, a few
days before,' and be told her that the affection of the
throat arose from extensive disease of the lungs—
they being full of small ulcers, and recommending
her to inhale, which she did for a few days pre-
viously to her being rubbed at his house, which took
place on the 10th and 11th of October. She stated
that the first rubbing. had no effect upon her; but
that she suffered pain immediately after the applica-
tion the second time,and that he then recommended
her to apply cabbage-leaves to .her chest, which she
did. She stated, also, that the agony she had suf-
fered 'on the 11th of October was very consider-
able, and that she would rather die than continue
under Mr. Longs care, and requested me to attend
her. I then took away the cabbage-leaves, and
dressed the wound with common spermaceti oint-
ment. She also told me, flint Mr. Long was anxious
to rub her again with the liniment, but she posi•
tively refused to submit to it;. and mid her that if
she wanted to heal the wound, she must do it with
dry lint ; that site had complained to him of having
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of Mr. Brodie and kr. Vance, and concur
e:iitdenhtrem in.opinion as to the cause of her death.

By Mr. Wheatley—Mrs. Lloyd had no symptom
whatever of, disease of the lungs; the wound I have
mentioned on the chest extended twenty inches in
length, independent of the inflammation which ex-
tended over the abdominal muscles, all down her
sides, over the hip and over the shoulder.
By Mr. Woofer—The deceased told me that she
was persuaded by her family to apply to Mr. St.
John ',Ong; I recommended her not to do so; there was
no mortification on the wound when I was first called
in to attend her on the 12th of October; she then
told me that she would not allow Mr. Long to come
into her presence again, and from that day he never
saw her.

Captain Lloyd was then examined—He said he
Game to London with his wife and family on the
13th of July; Mrs. Lloyd was in good health, but
subject to a nervous affection of the throat when she
took cold; she continued in good health, until she
became ill from the rubbing of Mr. Long. On the
sth I accompanied her to Mr. Long's house ; she
merely had a conversation; she went on the follow-
ing.day, when she inhaled. On the 7th she inhaled
again, also on the Bth, when she paid him II.; she
went to him on the 9th, when she was rubbed, for
the first time, across the bosom, as she described to
me; on the I,oth of October she told me that she