The Washington times., 1915-02-14

c3oOose less changed In a stomach
twelve hours.
Solicitor Dorsey
Cross-Examines.
Differentiation by Solicitor Dorsc,
Q. How long have you been pract,c-
Ing your profession? A. Seven years
since the time I graduated, Mr.. Dorsey.
Q. What kind Of a practitioner are
you? A. ! limit my work to surgery
and general medicine.
q. That Is a double-barrel arrange
| ment? A. Yes, sir.
q. Most experts coPhne themselves to
sarily.
| Q. And then md 1t a handful. Isn't
1t calculated to scatter a little when
you cover both branches? A. Well,
they cover more ground.
Q. You don't hit quite so hard?
A. No, not quite SO hard.
q. Now, Is turnip in tho same
class as cabbage? A Well it has
starch, cellulose, carbo -hydrates-in
general, should say 1t is in the same
, category.
Q. You told Mr.. Arnold that cabbage
took the longest to digest? A. It gem
orally Is considered so.
@. Are you familiar with the table
! compiled by DR.. Crittenden Of Yale?
| A. am not.
Q. If this eminent authority saws
| that turnip takes from three and a
half to four hours and cabbage takes
from three and a half to four hours, is
| that correct or not? A. I think that
| II DR.. Crittenden makes that state
ment, then he is at issue with the
generally accepted authorities.
! Q. And he is at issue with you, too,
isn't he? A. In that point he Is, yes.
| O. So you take issue with this man
without any hesitation?. A. On that
point do. yes.
! @. Now, doctor. what would you say
ougheto be the total acidity in a per-
| sons stomach one hour after an
Ewald test breakfast--how many
degrees Of hydrochloric acid, A. I
should say about two-tenths Of a
gram.
Q. Put it in degrees. A. Now, yoY
are getting into a line OF medicine
Mr.. Dorsey, that is entirely in the
province of the laboratory man. Cen
eral practitioners know in a general
| way regarding these answ,. and 1
an' answering them the way nine mei.
out of ten would answer them. 1t is
! generally understood that there are
about two-tenths Of a gram of hydro
chloric acid. l think the degree test
oratory men.
Q. l want you to give this fury in
the language medical experts would
express 1t the total acidity one hour
after the Ewald test breakfast, II you
can do 1t. A. AS told you, Mr.. Dor
sey. those are questions that should
be asked a laboratory man. and
prefer not to answer them.
| @. You prefer not to answer them?
A. Yes. sir.
@. All right, then, will take up
something else. II you can't answer
that.
Mr.. Arnold: I object to the state
ment that you can't answer that"
Mr.. Dorsey: I say: III you can't
answer that"
@. Now. doctor. don't you know that
any ordinary doctor who knows any
thing in the world about digestion
how much hydrochloric acid would be
sfound In free state in tho stomach,
after you took Ewald's test breakfast
j or any other substance: A. Not
! necessarily so.
O. Why. don't you know that It is
the fundamental proposition that they
start the beginner In medicine on, that
! 1t Is fundamental thing In diges-
tion? A. No, sir, take exception
/ I
: OF medicine that Is not taught in one
school out Of ten in tho country
@. Don't you know that they teach
It everywhere: that It is tho beginning
OF education on Digestion: don't you
. know that. doctor? A. Not neces-
sarily 90.
@. Now. doctor, did you' ever see
series OF experiments at all with cab
; baSs other than one or two you may
have happened onto in your personal
prsctice? A. No. sir. I am not quot
ing myself as doing personal re-
search.
a. Doctor. II q little Giri vas found
from sixteen to twenty hours after she
was murdered, and you saw . blow on
the back Of tho head here. Wit, just q
small blood clot. about nine days aftsr
tho thing had happened. and then YOU
found a deep indentauon in the neck
showing where cord had been pat
: around the throat. and you found the
: face livid and other indications Of this
nature, and an Injury to the w1ndpipA
what would you say as to the causs 70.
the girls death? a. Well, I would Ger
: tainly say 1t was not the blow on the
head.
@. Not the blow On the head! Come
down. doctor.