The proceedings at large on the trial of John Donellan ... for the wilful murder ... of Sir The. Edward Allesley Boughton ... / Taken in shorthand ... by W. Blanchard.

  • Donellan, John, -1781.
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[1781]
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Credit: The proceedings at large on the trial of John Donellan ... for the wilful murder ... of Sir The. Edward Allesley Boughton ... / Taken in shorthand ... by W. Blanchard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    animal-to drink, there a^e two operations going o ft: • there is one* refilling the operation fry the Minima] > the other, of forcing upon it from it s struggling to re- fute it j and there are very few experiments of that » kind but fome of the liquid will get into the lungs. I have known it from experiment. Q. If you are called upon todifiedt a body, fufpecled • to have died of poifon, and had been prefent at the dif- fe&ion, (hould you not have thought it neceffary to have purfued your fearch into the intertines, into the guts ? A. Certainly. (Y Do you, or not, apprehend you would have been likely, or more likely, to have received information, from thence than any other part of the human frame? A. That is the tra& of the poifon, and therefore I Ihould certainly follow that tradt through. You have heard particularly, the fymptoms of froth coming out of Sir Theodortus Boughton s mouth immediately before he died •, is that peculiar to a man dying of poifon, oris it not very common in many other complaints ? A. I fancy it is the general effedt of people dying in what you may call health. t Q. By dying in health, do you mean apoplexy or epilepfy ? A. Both •, or fudden death, upon a perfon that was the moment before in perfect health. Ck Have you ever had an opportunity of feeing fuch appearances'or effedts upon fuch fubjedts ? A. Hundreds of times. Do you confider yourfelf as called upon by fuch appearances, to impute the death ot the fubjedt to poifon ? A. Certainly not, I fhould rather fufpedt it to be an apoplexyj and I wifli the head had been opened, it might have removed all doubts. T 2 You