Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-23

 are all tbe particular symptoms should ex- pect to find
 Are all these different appearances con- stant? /?
 They are not.
 Are the eyes always open when persons are drowned
 They are not they may be found open or shut; the same is true in regard to the mouth.
 Upon what cause Is the presence of froth in the nostrils, lungs and mouth founded?
 The cause in the first place is from the churning up of water in the lungs by the air.
 In what proportion of cases of death by drowning is water not found in the lungs?
 In my experience I have so found 1t ln about eight per cent. of cases.
 Can you tell US about how many autopsies of drowned persons you have made /?
 About forty think These autopsies were made to ascertain the cause of death.
 Is, then, the absence of water from the lungs any satisfactory evidence that the sub ject did not come to his death by drowning? Mo- sir.
 Suppose water had actually entered the lungs at the time of drowning and two days after there was no water found in the lungs, how can it's absence be accounted for :? It can be accounted for by being drained | from the body and by transportation and handling. Suppose in taking the body from the water | the head was lower than the stomach, and it was turned over three or four times at l the morgue would you expect to find water l in the lungs? There might be water and there might not I cannot account for the reddish fluid in the I pleural cavities of healthy person except in l cases of drowning. In how many of the cases you have exam ! ined have you found reddish fluid in the l pleural cavities l About 80 per cent. l Have you ever found any reddish fluid in I the pleural cavities of persons who died from ] arsenical poisoning? never have. l Upon what is dependent the amount of water in the lungs and stomach? l It depends on the amount of time that life 1 existed after the person fell into the water, or the time they were struggling in the water | before life became extinct. l Doctor, did you visit Savin Rock last even ing and go upon the pier? l did, sir.
 Suppose girl IS or 20 years of age had I fallen from the second landing or gone off
 head first, her head striking in the sand, what l would you expect?
 should expect the girl would be stunned
 by the fall.
 A recess was ordered at this point which 1 lasted fifteen minutes.
 After recess Dr. Harris continued his testi- | mony as follows:
 Is muous froth in the trachea of any value?
 Yes, sir, it is. in cases of drowning an in i dication that that was the cause of death, Is it any indication that person taken
 from the water, whose neck and face two l days after assumes hrownish red color, that l the person was drowned? ! Yes, sir, 1t would be such an indication. 1 What is the effect of drowning on the ] blood?.
 It tends to distribute the blood quite even- l ly throughout the body. Does the flow of blood from the nose indi- 1 cate drowning? It shows that there has been excessive con- l gestion in the head and face, which is a I dition of things occurring in cases of drown 1 ing. I have often found, in bodies removed from the water in warm weather, blood ooz- l ing from the nostrils, ears and the mucous 1 membrane of the eyes. | Suppose person to have eaten meal of l beefsteak and mushrooms, and afterward that person was found dead how long before i would you say that meal was eaten, if the ] contents, or portion of them, were found I in the stomach? | Ordinarily within ten hours. I Suppose that person had eaten such meal on Thursday morning at about 10 | o'clock, and died the following Friday night, would you expect to find mushrooms in the | stomach? 1 It would be very extraordinary if I did so | find. Suppose person had died from the effects l of arsen1c six hours after 1t was taken, would l you expect to find any food in the stomach I should expect there would have been vomiting and the food would have been elected from the stomach. You may take the witness, gentlemen, said 1 MT. Jones. Mir. Doolittle then commenced the cross- examination. The attorney repeated witness answer to Mir. Jones' hypothetical question, i and then inquired: Now, Doctor, if you should find the body of person without these any of these in- dications except the blood in pleural cavity, what would you expect should say that probably the death was by drowning. If you should find none of these causes, would you say that the death was caused by drowning? Not if I found other causes of death. Doctor, in where arsenic is given in fluid form IS it the rule that inflammation of the stomach and intestines follows? I don't know, as have had no experience in that class of cases. Could you tell by looking at body after death who had arsenic administered to them in fluid form whether there was excessive pain in the stomach, thirst and vomiting be- fore death? 1 could only draw 1nIerenceS rom the dp- pearance of the body. Do you suppose in person who takes fa- tai dose of arsenlc and dies in six hours, that there will be a fatty degeneration of the liver?
 do, sir, because there is destruction of the cells which are filled with fat.
 Do not all the authors account for the de- generation of fat on the liver in another way?
 I do not know sir.
 Can you name any authority for your state ment?
 think it is found in Woods Therapeu- tics and Materia Medica?
 MT. Doolittle inquired for this book, but it was not in the court room, and he said he would produce it during the noon recess.
 At 12:4O recess was ordered until ? o'clock.