_Patrick Ogilvy_ and _Catharine Nairne_ were indicted for incest, and the murder, by Arsenic, of _Thomas Ogilvy_, brother of the said _Patrick_, and husband of the said _Nairne_. This celebrated Scotch trial commenced at Edinburgh, on Monday the 12th of August at seven in the morning, and the court continued setting until about two on Tuesday morning, when the Jury being inclosed, it adjourned until Wednesday at four o’clock in the afternoon. They were both found guilty. After several respites _Ogilvy_ was executed. _Nairne_ escaped from prison, and was never afterwards heard of. Footnote 198: Camp: Elys: Footnote 199: Edinb. Med. and Surg. Journ. no. xvii. Footnote 200: Ibid. no. xxvi. Footnote 201: Ibid. no. lxxi, for April, 1822. Footnote 202: _Mr. Marshall_, in his account of the symptoms of _Mr. Robert Turner_, who was poisoned by _Eliza Fenning_, states, “On examination I discovered a very remarkable irregularity of surface, occasioned by the spasmodic contractions of the muscles of the abdomen, and even of the viscera; this unevenness extended from the epigastric region to the pubes, and to the right and left hypochondrium.” Footnote 203: Nothing can be more strikingly illustrative of the characteristic appearances which distinguish the effects of violence during life, from those which result from putrefaction as described at page 181. Footnote 204: The author refers the reader to the first volume of his _Pharmacologia_, page 124, _note_. In addition to what he has there observed it may be stated, that many fallacies have arisen in pharmacology, from deducing conclusions respecting the effects of remedies upon inferior animals. One example will suffice.—Several substances have gained the reputation of Styptics, from the effects which have followed their application to the wounded and bleeding vessels in the extremities of the horse and ass; whereas the fact is that the blood-vessels of these animals possess a power of contraction which does not exist in those of man, and to which the cessation of the hemorrhage, fallaciously attributed to the styptic, is to be wholly attributed. Footnote 205: See Appendix, page 272. Footnote 206: Toxocologie Générale considérée, sous les Rapports de la Physiologie, de la Pathologie, et de la Medicine légale. Paris, 1815. This work has been faithfully translated into English by _John Walker_, in two volumes. London, 1817. Footnote 207: De Sed. et Caus. Morb. per Anat. indag. Epist. 59, 18. Footnote 208: See the interesting trial of _Michael Whiting_, for administering poison to _George_ and _Joseph Langman_, of Downham, in the Isle of Ely, at the Assizes holden at Ely on Wednesday, March 4th, 1822, before _Edward Christian, Esq._ Chief Justice of the Isle. The prisoner was convicted and executed. Footnote 209: M. R. S. T. iv, P. iii, p. 278. Footnote 210: