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 and an half, or a couple of ounces of a slimy reddish liquor, which I rubbed between my finger and thumb, and it contained no gritty substance that I could perceive.

Q. Is it not usual to find some such quantity of liquor in the stomach?

A. The stomach after death must contain something more or less according to different circumstances.

Q. You said the stomach and the orifice of it and the small arch of it bore the appearance of inflammation; pray is not inflammation and appearance of inflammation much the same thing.

A. All that I have to say upon the present business is I perhaps don't know the cause of inflammation; but there is an appearance of inflammation upon the stomach and bowels, owing to an injection of blood into the veinous system, the veins being full of blood, put on a red appearance.

Q. If you will not take upon you to say what is the cause, what are the signs of inflammation?

A. An appearance of redness, sometimes but not always attended with pain, and sometimes throbbing.

Q. Did you pursue your search through the bowels?

A. No; I connot say I did, nor did I think it in my power.

Q. How far did you pursue your search in the stomach?

A. We examined the contents of the stomach; we took the stomach out, but in taking it out a great part of the contents issued out of the bowels next to it; and the smell was so offensive I did not choose to enter into that matter.

Q. Whether a pursuit or enquiry, from an inspection through the bowels, was not as likely to have led to a discovery of the cause of the death, as any other part of the body which you did examine?

A. I do not believe a pursuit through the whole extent of the bowels could have led to any discovery in these circumstances.

Q. Are not the bowels the seat of poison?

A. When it passes in there, no doubt it affects the bowels.