Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-26

Mr.. Bradley or any other person that the
child died from the effects of medicine
administered l did tell Mr.. Bradley and
others that the prescription put up by
Armitage was the wrong medicine, &C.
cording to my prescription, but that 1t
produced the death of the child I cannot
say, as the child might have died without
the medicine /; I never advised Mr.. Brad
ley to commence the suit against Mr..
Armitage on account of the prescription
being changed; Mr.. Bradley commenced
the suit on his own account, without my
knowledge.
(Signed:) DR.. c. B. NoIoHT.
Witness: THos. KENT.
Virginia, New, Dec. 9Th, 1864.
Examination Resumed have practiced
medicine for three years ; l an not a grad
uate Of any University, and have no d.
ploma; commenced the study in 81, in
Geisen, Germany, in the University; stud
led there six months; left there because l
thought I could learn more elsewhere ;
then went to Wietzburg, Bavaria. and
studied a year in the University, then left;
left there because I thought l could I'M
prove faster elsewhere; went thence to
Prague and studied with professors, and
then came to California and commenced
practice; I am now a licensed physician;
have followed no other business.
Direct Examination Resumed. 1t is
easy to tell morphine from quinine by
test u competent clerk cannot tell these
drugs apart easily without tests; the drugs
look alike; a mistake could easily be made;
a competent druggist could not make q
mistake if the bottles were labeled; if they
were not labeled, a mistake would be
easy; know something of a druggists bust
ness. THE testimony was then read to
the witness and subscribed to by him.
DR.. S. A. McMEANs' evidence-I was
present when tests were made IN Court;
the tests used were proper so far as l
know; the result of an over dose of NOR
phine would produce labored breathing,
relaxation of muscles, contracted pupil OF
the eye, and ultimate death. I made a
diagnosis Of the case, as follows: I con-
concluded the was dying from
something she had taken, and left the
house as soon as DR.. Voigt entered. What
I know is this: Last Sunday, between 8
and II o'clock A. NJ, a man named Gro
setta came into my office, apparently much
excited, and asked me to visit Il lady who
was sick /; asked him who; he said a Mex
lean lady; said she resided between ID and
E streets 4; he said they thought she was
dying; went with him at once to the
place; when nearly there asked messenger
how long she had been sick; he said three
weeks; l asked if she had had a physician;
he replied a Dutch doctor I; I concluded
from description that it was DIR. Voigt;
slackened my pace, and remarked l did
not wish to have anything to do with the
case; he said the party had paid and dis
charged DR.. Voigt, and asked me to SO
and ace her ; I went, and found patient in
a dying state apparently; found her eyes
set; examined the pupil Of the eye; very
much dilated; while making examination
some woman had her hand against pa
TENTS stomach; I asked why this was
done; o man near said she was keeping 1t
there because she feared q ball in her stom-
ach would arise and shake her to death
l then examined the stomach and found q
blister had been recent; examined her
pulse, and her extremities; her pulse man.
ifested no irregularities except once while
l held her arm; the pulse was ordinarily
regular; her breathing when I first entered
was q little hurried, with an occasional
moan; her mouth was partly open; her
lips were purple; the features a pale yell
low; hardly knew what to think at first,
but concluded she had taken poison, or
that something was on her stomach that
had evidently produced the strange effect ;
l remarked that in my opinion the woman
was poisoned ; soon after DR.. Weight en-
tered the house, and I then left without
administering or prescribing any medicine;
an overdose Of quinine has some similar
effects to an overdose of morphine; ten
grains of q~uinine would not have usually
produced the state in which I found the
deceased ; morphine would have produced
the effects I saw if an overdose was ad-
ministered I speak from medical authori-
ties would be loath to say which drug
produced the state in which l found de-
ceased.
Cross Examination. - Can easily dis
tinguish morphine from quinine when IN
Generalization would not attempt to tell
after it had been prepared in q paper,
without a test; quinine is much the bit
~terest; usually the pupil of the eye would
be contracted when the patient was dying;
in this case the eye was dilated different
stages might make a manifest difference in
the matter found her breathing intermit-
tant such an effect might be produced by
an overdose of morphine or opium; qui-
nine, in over-doses, produces pain in the
head. deafeness, vertigo, loss Of sight and
speech, and the eyes would be in a similar
state as that in which he found the eyes of
the patient; I have been a practicing
physician for thirty-four years; am a
graduate from the State Medical Society OF
Alabama; I have never had but n in
stance Of any knowledge Of the medical
skill of DR.. Voight. =.
Question. - From your knowledge OF
DR.. Voight, is he a skillful, competent or
able physicians
Ans,cer.-I do not consider him a COM
petent physician.
I know Mr.. Armitage. and from my
knowledge of him I should say he was a
competent druggist I am not acquainted
with the clerks qualification Quininc
and morphine are usually kept in different
STYLES of bottles, after a transfer from the
original packages; I thought when l saw
| the patient that she wal poisoned.
The evidence was read to witness. and
subscribed to.
ANALYSIS.
Coroner Tucker then stated that he
would submit q chemical analysis OF the
contents Of the stomach, as made BY W.
T. Crouch, chemist Of Virginia. The fol-
lowing statement was read:
HOSPITAL LABORATORY, Oct. %.
To DR.. j. C. Tucker, County Coroner
| Sir: The stomach left with me by you
for chemical analysis has been subjected to
| the following tests for morphine: Entire
stomach and contents digested in dilute
| alcohol for tw~enty-four hours; four ounces
of the liquor treated with aqua ammonia,
white precipitate formed and collected on
filter and dried I; and upon addition OF
nitric acid, was changed to a dark red So
luton. Four ounces evaporated in water
bath, minute crystals formed, which being
tested with nitric acid showed like results,
which prove co~nclusively the presence OF