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 of humanity and tenderness; and such was the character which he held in the Institution.

(Witness withdrew.)

Mr. John Tucker (examined by Mr. Sergt. Pell.)

You are a surgeon living at Exeter.—I am.

And a member of the Royal College of Surgeons?—Yes, I am.

You have heard the symptoms and circumstances first described by Dr. Edwards and Mr. Street?—Yes.

From the different facts which both those gentlemen have spoken to, as to the state of the stomach of the deceased when opened, what disorder should you have supposed that person to have died of?—From some inflammation in the stomach.

What disorder of the human frame, in your judgment, would be likely to produce such appearances?—Hernia, Cholera Morbus, and idiopathic inflammations, or inflammations from unknown causes; that is, when we find those appearances of the stomach where we can assign no causes.

Now supposing a person to have had violent retchings and purgings, accompanied with a pain in the stomach, and accompanied with such appearances as these in the stomach, if the body had been opened to what causes would you attribute it?—To Cholera Morbus, if I had not detected Hernia.

(By Mr. Justice Abbott.) You mean to say that if you had found the stomach in the state described by Dr. Edwards, you would ascribe that to Cholera Morbus?—Yes, my Lord.

(By Mr. Sergt. Pell.) You have heard it stated in evidence what the plan was that Mr. Donnall pursued, when he administered medicine to Mrs. Downing that night?—I have, Sir.

Was that the right or the wrong one?—It was partly right, and partly wrong.