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 Q. You mentioned that the body was much swelled?

A. It was swelled.

Q. Appearing upon a gangrene, I suppose?

A. It rather put on the appearance of gangrene.

Q. I understand you have set your name to a description of certain appearances that met your eye when you examined the body—I mean your examination?

A. I have undoubtedly.

Q. Did you, or did you not, concur with Mr. Wilmer as to the appearances of the body?

A. In general we did.

Q. You set your name to that examination?

A. I did not set my name to any thing but my own examination?

Q. Wherein the appearances are particularly described?

A. They are not particularly described, there is something said about the stomach and bowels.

Q. For what purpose then did you attend there?

A. I did not know that it was necessary before a coroner's jury to enter into the particulars; I was quite a novice in the business.

Q. Do you mean a novice in the mode of dissection.

A. No, in the business before a coroner,

Q. Did the account you set your name to, contain a true description of the appearances that met your eye upon the occasion?

A. So far as they went it did.

Q. Did you ever hear or know of any poison whatever occasioning any immediate external appearances on the human body?

A. No, no immediate external appearances in the case of vegetable poisons, except what I have heard, but they have not fallen under my own knowledge.

Q. So far for the external appearance. Now I shall be glad to know whether all the appearances you speak of in the face, the protuberance of the tongue, and the lips being swelled and retracted, whether those are not all signs of putrefaction?