Do you ascribe his death to morphia?--No, except that it would assist in the convulsive attack, and it would affect the spinal marrow. Brought about by the morphia?--No. In your opinion was morphia right treatment or wrong?--I should think not very good in the state of excitement he was in then. Do you mean that there has been anything to show any excitement at Rugeley?--You will not allow me to furnish an answer. There was no excitement at Rugeley, but morphia, when there is sickness, will sometimes disagree with a patient when there is an irritable state of the brain. The stomach was irritated, I will allow, but where is the evidence that there was any excitement at Rugeley?--There is none. Then why was morphia a wrong treatment?--Because it is after sickness, and there is evidence of there being an irritable state of the brain. From what he said himself, he must either have been delirious on the Sunday night, or he must have had some attack similar to what he had on the Monday night. Do you mean the attack of the Sunday night was similar to that on the Monday night?--Less intensity, but I think very probably of the same character. You do believe there were convulsions on the Sunday night, then?--No, I do not. He died of convulsions?--Yes, but I say of the same character. Then you do believe he had convulsions?--To a certain extent, but less in intensity. There was a great deal of mental and bodily excitement. On the Monday night?--I have stated to you that he was in that condition which very often precedes convulsions. Will you admit if a man so under the influence of morphia and he is suddenly disturbed by a noise, it is likely to have a depressing effect upon him?--I will; but there is no proof of a noise. [Sidenote: T. Nunneley] There is no proof, except his own statement, of any illness?--Precisely; that is part of my opinion--that he did not state what had occurred accurately. Do you mean to say that he did not state that thing?--No; that he was mistaken. That is one of the symptoms. I believe the man to have been delirious then. Now, be so good as to tell me what are the convulsions of which you gave some statement to my friend which will produce convulsions of a tetanic form?--Any irritation will produce it. Ending in death?--It may end in death. Will you tell me of any convulsions which you have known end in death accompanied with what my friend calls tetanic symptoms?--I have known them in children. I have never had such a case in an adult. Has your reading furnished you with any?--The general statement of all writers is that such cases do occur. Have you ever known or read of a case in which the patient was conscious to the last?--No, I have not. I have seen it stated so, but I have never met with it. In epilepsy you have these tetanic symptoms?--Yes, but before death consciousness is gone.