Can any one, closely following the evidence throughout, fail to be impressed with the _inconsistency of Mrs. Maybrick’s conduct in relation to her husband’s illness with a desire to murder him?_ In all recorded cases of poisoning, the utmost precautions to screen the victim from observation have been observed. In the present instance it would seem as if just the reverse object had been aimed at. We find the prisoner _first giving the alarm about the attack_ of illness; first sending for the doctors, brothers, and friends; first suggesting that something taken by her husband, some drug or medicine, was at the bottom of the mischief. We find the very first thing she does is to administer a mustard emetic--the last thing one would have expected if there had been a desire to poison him. If the prisoner _had wished to put everybody in the house, and the doctors themselves, on the scent of poison, she could not have acted differently_. [See also “Mrs. Maybrick’s Own Analysis of the Meat-Juice Incident,” page 366.] SOME IMPORTANT DEDUCTIONS FROM MEDICAL TESTIMONY From Dr. Humphreys’ testimony it appears that, after the days when he was away from the patient, and when Mrs. Maybrick had undisturbed access to her husband, _no symptoms whatever of arsenical poisoning appeared_. If, then, arsenic was administered by Mrs. Maybrick under the doctors’ eyes, without their detecting it, _what value can attach to the testimony of the medical attendants_ as to the cause of death, apart from the post-mortem examination, by which they practically admit _they allowed their judgment to be governed_? Does not the only alternative present itself that Drs. Humphreys and Carter are driven to the admission: “That the deceased died of arsenical poisoning we deduce, not from the _symptoms during life_, but from the fact that _arsenic was found in the body after death_”? SYMPTOMS DUE TO POISONOUS DRUGS From the medical testimony it appears that the following list of _poisonous drugs_ was prescribed and administered to Mr. Maybrick shortly before his death: April 28, 1899, diluted prussic acid; April 29, Papaine’s iridin; May 3, morphia suppository; May 4, ipecacuanha; May 5, prussic acid; May 6, Fowler’s solution of arsenic; May 7, jaborandi tincture and antipyrin; May 10, sulfonal, cocain, and phosphoric acid. Also, during the same period, the following were prescribed: bismuth, double doses; nitro-glycerin; cascara; nitro-hydrochloric acid (composed of nux vomica, strychnin, and brucine); Plummer’s pills (containing antimony and calomel); bromide of potassium; tincture of hyoscyamus; tincture of henbane; chlorin. Now it will be observed that up to May 6, when Fowler’s solution of arsenic was administered, no symptom whatever had been observed _at all compatible with the effects of arsenic_.