You have had considerable experience in idiopathic tetanus, and some five or six, perhaps, of traumatic. (An extract from the evidence of Mr. Jones was read.) I have read to you the description of Cook’s symptoms as witnessed by Mr. Jones. I ask you to point out any distinction between those symptoms and the symptoms of tetanus?--Do you mean the one paroxysm or the disease which is called tetanus? I am speaking of the paroxysm of tetanus?--It is very like. By LORD CAMPBELL--You say this is not tetanus at all?--It is not. I never saw a case of tetanus in which the rigidity continued at the time of death and afterwards. Cross-examination resumed--I am asking you as to symptoms of the paroxysms. I understand you to say the symptoms of the paroxysms are not distinguishable from those of tetanus?--Some of them are at the moment of death. Give me any of them? By LORD CAMPBELL--This is not tetanus, but, as far as they go, they coincide with the symptoms of tetanus at the moment of death?--Yes. Cross-examination resumed--Observe, you have here consciousness to the last. That before the man dies he says, “Turn me over,” and as soon as they turn him over he dies. Tell me of any case you know of in which death has ensued from convulsions, where the death was not from tetanus, in which the patient was conscious?--I have already said I do not know of such a case. Let me call your attention to strychnia tetanus. Would you call the symptoms tetanic?--They are called so very properly. [Sidenote: T. Nunneley] Do you agree with Sir Benjamin Brodie that while the paroxysms of tetanic convulsions last there is no difference between those which arise from strychnia and those which arise from tetanus properly so called, but the difference is in the course of them?--I think there is. I think that the hands are less violently contracted and affected in ordinary tetanus, and that the whole effect of the spasms is less in ordinary tetanus. You would expect to find the hands more firmly and tightly closed in tetanus from strychnia than in ordinary tetanus?--I think it is so. There is another difference, that in tetanus the convulsions never entirely pass away. That is one of the reasons Sir Benjamin Brodie gave for distinguishing the course?--In the case at Leeds it was the same. I believe you felt perfectly prepared in that case, on the description of the symptoms, to come to the determination that it was a death from strychnia?--I thought it possible and probable. I did not come to a determined opinion. I expressed an opinion. I did not say I had no doubt as to the cause of death. We had ascertained at that time that there was strychnia. After the opinion you expressed in that case, is it possible that you can represent this case of Mr. Cook as one of idiopathic tetanus?--I never did, and you have not heard from me that I infer that.