same day to attend a patient of my own; and being anxious about the poor fellow, I called again at Mrs. Phillips’, but did _not_ see the deceased. The nurse said that she had used fomentation, but the man was in great pain; I asked if Dr. Bell was there, and on her replying that he was not, I said I would write to him, (and hence the letter which Dr. Bell has thought proper to produce in his defence.) I then took my leave—Dr. Bell continued to attend him, on the Monday and Tuesday, and on the Wednesday, I received a note from him, asking me when I could attend, but I did not immediately answer it, as I saw his motive for writing in such a way. After this, Swann’s wife called upon me and I did attend, and I found the man discharging mucous from every mucous surface. Mr. Crickmay who happened to be in my house at the time went with me, and also saw the deceased, and he enquired as to the remedies that had been adopted; we both thought the man was sinking—his pulse was almost imperceptible at the wrist—his eye was vacant—the surface of his skin was clammy, and there were other indications of that general decline of power which frequently precedes death. I naturally inquired what the man had been taking, but before the nurse could answer, he said “he has been giving me more poison, I know it was arsenic, because I have mixed arsenic and lime with wheat, and know the smell and taste too.” This is the condition I found him in—I prescribed for him, directing such treatment as I conceived to be required to meet the exigencies of the case. He continued much in the same state for four or five days, the principal symptoms being diarrhoea, and a discharge of a small quantity of urine, mixed with bloody mucous and pus, which he had great difficulty in voiding. He then rallied somewhat, but relapsed in a day or two, and fearing the threatened result, and being influenced by the remarks being made out of doors, which were loud and condemnatory of the treatment the man had received from Dr. Bell, I thought it necessary to call in Mr. Gibson, a medical man, with whom I was not intimate. On the evening on which Mr. Gibson saw the man, he supported him while I drew off his water, and after Mr. Gibson had examined him, he came to the same conclusion as myself, that abscesses were forming in the neck of the bladder, and in the tissues connecting that organ with the adjacent structures. Mr. Gibson said that he had nothing to suggest in addition to my treatment. He saw the man the next day, and he said there was evidence of abscesses having burst, both in the rectum and in the urethra, for a great deal of pus had escaped. For a few days the man rallied again, but we had no hope for him at that time; and those who understand these cases, will tell you, that when abscesses form, as the result of injury and irritation in structures adjacent to the bladder and its connections, they will, by a continuous irritation in the absence of