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lived. The inflammation on the bowels had the appearance of being recently produced. Steam baths are sometimes resorted to; such for instance as that used by Dr. Jennings, but I have never used one except by the application of hot bricks. His looks were of a full habit, and appeared about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years of age. Cayenne pepper is a strong stimulant, and is, I believe, never used as an injection, but by the advocates of this system; but I have known brandy used under particular circumstances. The summer before last when many died of drinking cold water, I used brandy, and sometimes procured relief. I never knew lobelia to be used by any, except the advocates of this system. The effect of lobelia it is said, is to act as a purgative. I have never used it, and have no knowledge of it myself. Cayenne is an active stimulant; lobelia is also. Lobelia I do consider ought not to be used by any but those who are judicious and acquainted with its effects and qualities; consider it a dangerous article, and think it improper to be used without experience of persons of good judgment. His pulse was too feeble to be bled from the arm.

Bell sent for me at first. Was examined at the Coroner's inquest, which was held about 8 o'clock in the evening. Bell and Burke both stated before the jury that they had administered lobelia and cayenne pepper, and that it had the effect they intended. They said the injection was composed of No. 6, and the composition powder. They gave what I consider large

doses, a teaspoonful of lobelia. I am not certain how much is an ordinary dose, ten or twenty grains I think, but do not know how to measure by teaspoonfuls. The cayenne pepper was given in the composition powder. The medicine produced vomiting. They have a powder, No. 6, given as an injection with lobelia also, with a nerve powder. The injection was of No. 6, and they referred to the book; the cayenne is one of the ingredients of No. 6.

Recollect a case in which I have known Mr. Burke to have administered. At the time the cholera was raging, a female was attacked in French alley. She was in a back room. I felt her pulse; it was laboring under cholera. Burke was treating her. It was too dark in the room for me to see much of her situation. I then left her. Burke said she recovered. I saw her on Saturday, and on Monday I met some of the members of the society, who said she was mending. I am not aware of having expressed any surprise.

Saw nothing like cholera in the case of Mr. Hazelip; there was no cramps, but there was convulsions. The lungs were slightly adhered to the chest, but that could not have produced his death. There was some disease of a chronic character, but it could not have caused his death. I consider the effect of the treatment was to aggravate these slight chronic diseases; they could not have produced his death; and for all the effect they could have caused, he would have lived to an old age. When I first came, there was a tendency to convulsions, which I attributed

to the pressure on the brain. They have a powder they use, which they call No. 6; I have seen it.

December 13.

Dr. Cole. When I reached Bell's, Hazelip was lying on the bedstead; the windows in the room were all down; the patient was wrapped up in blankets. A sudden check of perspiration is likely to produce serious consequences, particularly where there has been a great excitement of the system; and a sudden check of the perspiration would be likely to produce those symptoms of congestion which I alluded to yesterday. The day was very pleasant and fine; the air was clear. The mischief was done before I entered the room. The man was sponged with cold water by Burke, while in a state of perspiration. Did not know, until they told me, before the jury of inquest, what they had done, and the treatment they had pursued. The sponge was used, while the steaming was going on. He was in a profuse perspiration when I reached there. He was sponged with cold water on the face and breast, while steaming, I attribute the symptoms to the operation of the whole treatment; from the steam and internal stimulants administered. Cannot explain why the patches of inflammation were in the bowels. If the strong stimulating medicines used, had come in contact with the bowels, they might have produced general inflammation. No one part of the stomach is more likely or predisposed to inflammation than another. Neither is one part of the bowels more liable to inflam

mation than another. When I felt his pulse it was very feeble, and that was the reason I did not bleed, or attempt to bleed, from the arm. The redness of the face and eyes indicated congestion, and I thought it necessary to abstract blood from the artery; could not in his then state, adopt general bleeding. Am not acquainted with lobelia, and have never used it; always considered it a very dangerous medicine when administered by persons not well acquainted with its effects, and I have always found other medicines to answer the same purpose. Dr. Cutler was, I believe, the first one who has introduced lobelia into recent notice. It has been recommended by physiciains as a specific for the asthma; believe a distinguished physician used it upon himself, and took it in the form of a tincture, by dissolving it in spirits, and threw as much into it as the spirits would abstract. All our medical works mention lobelia as dangerous, and I do think it a dangerous article, in unskilful hands. About ten grains of lobelia, in dry leaves, is an ordinary dose; this is simetimes increased to twenty grains. The valerian is used as a nervine. They have a powder they call No. 6; am well acquainted with it. Am frequently subject to a nervous headache, and, in one of my visits to a friend's house, at his request, I took a little of it to relieve my headache, but it had not the effect. The lungs in the case of Hazelip, were more engorged than the brain. There might have been a strong predisposition to that engorgement. The tendency of the vapor bath

is to excite all the vessels on the surface of the body, and unite the circulation on the surface. In this case, I discovered the brain, bowels and lungs were affected by this steaming. It would not have a tendency to relieve congestion, if the steam was continued for a length of time.

All the circumstances led us to the conclusion that he came to his death by the treatment pursued. If it were not for the testimony at the post-mortem examination, by which we learned the treatment which had been pursued, we might not have been able to come to any positive conclusion upon the subject; it was only by hearing the treatment, and then an examination of its effects, that we came to the conclusion. When I made the attempt to open the artery, I told Bell to apply mustard plasters to his feet and arms. I then went away. I did not know any other physician had been sent for. The only change I caused in the treatment was the attempt to sever the artery and the application of the mustard plasters. Dr. Knapp, when he came, asked for a lancet, and cut the artery. Burke was then holding the head of the patient, and also washed his face with camphor. The windows were open, and Hazelip was wrapped up in blankets. The windows were continued open during my second visit. The head of the patient was slightly elevated, but I do not recollect that a chair was placed behind him, or what was there to elevate it. There are two windows in the room. The room is a small one. The door was also open. Dr. Knapp was then in attendance, and I

left the man, thinking he must die. Mr. Moffit was the person who went for Dr. Knapp. Mr. Bell sent for me. When there is an engorgement of the blood vessels, we bleed without reference to perspiration. Mr. Burke has been practicing for some time. He has on several occasions invited me to attend with him, to see his cases, and it was in consequence of this general invitation, as well as a special one, that I went to see his patient in French alley.

I attended a family who had Smith and Thomson's system of medicine in their house, and were very partial to it; but they would never administer without advice. They frequently urged me to abandon the system I practice and adopt it, alleging that if I did so I would find it profitable. At the decease of this gentleman his books were presented to me. The common characteristic of cholera is congestion, not inflammation. Did not discover in this case any symptoms of cholera when I first went, nor did I find any on the post-mortem examination. Never had an opportunity of being present at the dissection of a case of cholera. With regard to cayenne pepper, we might perhaps give six, eight or ten grains; a teaspoonful is about thirty grains; weighed it to ascertain the quantity. I would not under any circumstances give more than the six, eight or ten grains more than two or three times a day. It is my deliberate opinion, formed from what I saw while in the room, as well as at the post-mortem examination, that his death was occasioned from the treatment

which he received. The report of the inquest was drawn up by Professor Geddings. The jury asked our opinion, and we retired to consult upon the case; our opinion was given unanimously. Know of no blank sheet being signed by the physicians. The report was signed by all the physicians present. We examined all the witnesses before the jury of inquest.

Barnet McCauly. Saw a man in the steam bath; did not see him after his death; do not know positively that it was Mr. Hazelip, but believe it was. Went there through curiosity to see a man going through the steam. Mr. Seabrook told me that there was a man upstairs who was going through the steam. He lives with Mr. Bell. When I got up to the room, I found Burke, Bell and Mr. Moffit there. This was about 11 o'clock. Hazelip seemed to be in a very uneasy situation from perspiration. He asked how long for God's sake he would be kept there. The reply was that it would all be over in ten or fifteen minutes. Do not suppose that I stayed more than fifteen minutes; he was on the steam cot all the time I did stay. There was nothing said about Dr. Hintze being sent for. Saw them give him nothing, but saw Burke reducing the steam. The steam came very rapid. The pipe was very warm, and I was obliged in feeling it to put my handkerchief between it and my hand, and then it felt very warm. The place where I felt the pipe was about the center, between the fire and the steam cot, and this was about five or seven minutes before I went

away. They did not apply anything more than phials to his nostrils, nor did they give him anything while I was there. He did not ask to be released more than once. He did ask how long he would be kept, and received for answer not more than ten or fifteen minutes.

Professor Geddings. When ! first saw Hazelip he was dead. Was requested by the Coroner to conduct the post-mortem examination. The coroner informed me that a man was treated by the Thomsonians, and that he was found dead; found his body in the third story of Bell's house, and examined it externally, but found no marks of injury except the artery which was cut by Dr. Cole, and a slight abrasion on the instep of the right foot, not of recent origin. There was great rigidity of the body, the muscles were very rigid. On laying open the cavity of the chest the lungs were found much engorged with blood, the surface of the left lung adhered slightly to the chest; this appeared to have been of long standing, and to have had nothing to do with the recent circumstances. The heart was found perfectly healthy. The heat in the cavity was very great, more so than I was accustomed to see such a long period after death. The same elevated temperature was found in the cavity of the abdomen. The stomach when laid open was found to contain a dirty looking fluid, part of which was mucus, and part perhaps what had been administered. On the lining membrane of the stomach there were several patches of inflammation of considerable extent. The surface

of the membrane exhibited some symptoms of disease of long standing. Some papulae which had nothing to do with the present case. The small intestines were lined with mucus. The lining membrane had also patches of inflammation in lines or streaks. There were also some points of deep color, bloodshot appearance. The evidence of inflammation in the large intestines less manifest; their contents were considerable; they were the natural contents of the organ. Towards the lower parts called the colon of the intestines, there were several inches narrowing. This contraction I conceived of old standing, and had no connection with the present

case.

The surface of the liver exhibited small white globular spots, called tubercles, varying from the size of a pin's head tɔ that of a pea. The same tuberculous degeneration existed in the substance of the liver, the vessels were slightly congested. The other organs in the cavity of the abdomen were healthy. The appearance of the liver was that of old standing. We next examined the brain; the serous coverings of the brain was somewhat injected with blood; there was also a slight congestion of the vessels of the substance of the organ. There was a bloody fluid in the cavities of the organ, and its lower surface. After the organ was removed a considerable quantity of this fluid sunk into the cavity in which the spinal marrow is contained. This is all I am able to state relative to the post-mortem examination. Have heard what Dr. Cole has stated; it is substantially the same as I should

have expressed. We all concurred in the examination. There were patches of inflammation on the stomach and intestines, which appeared of recent origin. The morbid appearance of the brain and covering I conceived of recent origin. The slight congestion of the liver was also of recent origin, but taken separate from the rest, should not have considered it of much importance.

From the post-mortem examination, and the testimony given before us at that time, I concluded, and it is now my opinion, he came to his death by the medicines which were administered, particularly the lobelia and the steam, which were applied at the same time. Mr. Bell, Dr. Cole, Dr. Knapp, Mr. West, and Moffit, were examined before the jury of inquest; consider the steam and the lobelia as having caused the most injury; consider lobelia as a safe medicine when administered in proper doses, and with discretion. Have the same opinion with regard to the steam bath. Have seen similar appearances in death from other causes. Came to my conclusion from the post-mortem examination and the testimony produced at that time. Should not have arrived, perhaps, at the same conclusion from the appearance, without taking into consideration the treatment pursued. Should have considered, from the history of the circumstances, and the evidence before us, and am decidedly of opinion he had no serious disease when he went to the steam cot. The immediate effect of steam carried to the extent it was in this particular case, was

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