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 Q. And have declared so?

A. I did.

Q. Was there or was there not a large quantity of extravasated blood in the thorax?

A. On each side the lungs there was.

Q. About what quantity?

A. I think not quite a pint on each side the right and left lobe of the lungs.

Q. Would not the rupture of a blood vessel occasion death?

A. The rupture of a blood vessel undoubtedly would have occasioned death; but it would not in my apprehension have been attended with the same appearances.

Q. Might not a blood vessel in an effort to reach be broken?

A. I should conceive, that if, in an effort to reach, a blood vessel of that magnitude had ruptured that he must have died immediately without convulsions.

Q. But supposing a person recovering from convulsions, for he is stated to be inclined to sleep?

A. It is a case I am not supposing probable.

Q. Is it possible?

A. Every thing is possible under God.

Q. Did you never hear of any person dying of an epilepsy or of an apoplexy with symptoms like those, being in convulsions?

A. I do not think the symptoms described as having taken place in Sir Theodosius Boughton are like to an epilepsy?

Q. Nor an apoplexy?

A. They were entirely in my opinion the effects of the draught.

Q. Might not an epilepsy or an apoplexy be accompanied with those symptoms?

A. I never saw either of them attended with an heaving at the stomach.

Q. When respiration grows feeble; is it not a common case that the muscles of the throat are very much relaxed?