“It will generally be found that, where the coats of the stomach are softened by the gastric juice, the vessels are unable to resist the force of the syringe in injecting the body. In such subjects, therefore, we find the cavity of the stomach filled with wax, and we likewise see masses of it collected between the coats of the viscus.” Footnote 187: Mark this circumstance, for we shall have occasion to revert to it, when we come to consider _the part_ of the stomach which undergoes solution from the action of the gastric juice. Footnote 188: A case of extensive solution of the Stomach by the Gastric fluids, after Death. By _John Haviland_, M. D. Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 1, part ii, p. 287. Footnote 189: He had taken, at intervals, a small quantity of port wine and water. Footnote 190: Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, vol. iv. Footnote 191: 1. “The trial of _Charles Angus, Esq._ for the murder of _Margaret Burns_, taken in short hand by _William Jones_, jun. 8vo.” Liverpool, pp. 1808, 288. Also 2. “A vindication of the opinions delivered in evidence by the medical witnesses for the crown, on a late trial at Lancaster for murder, 8vo.” 1803. 3. “Remarks on a late publication, entitled “A Vindication of the Opinions delivered in Evidence by the Medical witnesses for the Crown, on a late trial at Lancaster.” By _James Carson, M.D._” 4. “An Exposure of some of the false statements contained in _Dr. Carson’s_ pamphlet, entitled “Remarks, &c.” in a letter to that gentleman, by _James Dawson_, Surgeon.” The suspicion against the prisoner, _Charles Angus_, was, that he had endeavoured to procure a premature delivery, or abortion, by means of an instrument resembling a long trochar, and that he had administered, or been privy to the administration of certain drugs, which had occasioned such effects upon the stomach of the deceased, as in the end produced her death. The prisoner was a retired merchant, with two or three children, with whom the deceased had lived as housekeeper and governess. It appeared in evidence that improper familiarities had been noticed between them, and that Miss _Burns_ had, for some time, appeared out of health, and that her abdomen was much increased in size at the period when she was attacked with the symptoms which preceded her death, and which, as we learn from the witnesses on the trial, presented the following history.