On Tuesday morning, August the 13th, we found him worse again, His countenance, pulse, breath, and power of swallowing were extremely bad.  He was excessively weak.  His hands trembled.  Both they and his face were cold and clammy.  The pain was entirely gone from his bowels, but not from his fundament.  He was now and then a little delirious.  He had frequently a short cough and a very extraordinary elevation of his chest in fetching his breath, on which occasions an ulcerous matter generally issued from his fundament.  Yet in his sensible intervals he was cheerful and jocose; he said, “he was like a person bit by a mad dog; for that he should be glad to drink, but could not swallow.”  About noon this day his speech faltered more and more.  He was sometimes very restless, at others very sleepy.  His face was quite ghastly.  This night was a terrible one.  On Wednesday morning, August the 14th, he recovered his senses for an hour or more.  He told me he would make his will in two or three days; but he soon grew delirious again, and sinking every moment, died about two o’clock in the afternoon.

Upon the whole, did you then think, from the symptoms you have described and the observations you made, that Mr. Blandy died by poison?—­Indeed I did.

And is it your present opinion?—­It is; and I have never had the least occasion to alter it.  His case was so particular, that he had not a symptom of any consequence but what other persons have had who have taken white arsenic, and after death had no appearance in his body but what other persons have had who have been destroyed by white arsenic.[7]

When was his body opened?—­On Thursday, in the afternoon, August the 15th.

What appeared on opening it?—­I committed the appearances to writing, and should be glad to read them, if the Court will give me leave.

[Then the doctor, on leave given by the Court, read as follows:—­]

“Mr. Blandy’s back and the hinder part of his arms, thighs, and legs were livid.  That fat which lay on the muscles of his belly was of a loose texture, inclining to a state of fluidity.  The muscles of his belly were very pale and flaccid.  The cawl was yellower than is natural, and the side next the stomach and intestines looked brownish.  The heart was variegated with purple spots.  There was no water in the pericardium.  The lungs resembled bladders half filled with air, and blotted in some places with pale, but in most with black, ink.  The liver and spleen were much discoloured; the former looked as if it had been boiled, but that part of it which covered the stomach was particularly dark.  A stone was found in the gall bladder.  The bile was very fluid and of a dirty yellow colour, inclining to red.  The kidneys were all over stained with livid spots.  The stomach and bowels were inflated, and appeared before any incision was made into them as if they had been pinched, and extravasated blood had stagnated between their membranes.