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IMPERFECT INQUEST.
496
IMPERFECT INQUEST.
quire the
the presence of the medical
coroner
invariably
man.
But
states that he is sutis-
thus biasses them. They also exthemselves satisfied, and thus ended the business. " Died by the visitation of God !" Why, he might have been poisoned! I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, A SUBSCRIBER TO THE LANCET.
fied, and To the Editor
of THE LANCET. SIR:—I was requested by the Overseel (being Town Surgeon) to visit a man whc was
lying
very ill.
at a public-house in this town I found him with the following
pressed
Yorkshire, May, 1837. symptoms :-Pulse very small, weak, and The man was not known to any person in undulating; countenance very anxious and this town, neither was his name ascertained. ghastly : on asking him if he had pain, he He was buried, of course, by the parish. referred me to his abdomen, which I found The name and address of our correvery tender generally, and presenting to the touch a very peculiar feel, something like were forwarded to rs with this spondent what is felt where eff’usion of blood has of which taken place. He said that he had been communication, the publication has until the prebeen accidentally dclayed crushed by a boat (in what is called a lock) sent a to the the five week. that it wall, days before; However, reply quesagainst wonder it did not kill him on the in- tion which it contains must have been deit turned him round several times ; rived by the writer some time since, from and so on. the remarks which we have made on such I ordered fomentations to the abdomen, inquests. At all events, ir,. this Number of gave him a fordial, and left word that he THE LANCET will be found sufficient present must be well looked after, as it was probable that he might die. He had made plenty comment on the subject.—ED. L. of water, and his bowels had been opened freely during the day. This, I forgot to say, was on the 2nd of May, at half-past ten, P.M., when I was called to see him, and at halfCORRESPONDENTS. past three, A.M., he died, being previously strongly convulsed. The coroner was out We shall tind room for the statements of of town, and did not arrive at home until Dr. Weatherill. the afternoon of the 4th of May, when hf The communication of Dr. Roland has summoned ajury for half-past five o’clock, us, and shall appear. and, after a hurried examination, returned reached The sick poor relief plan of Dr. M’Cabe of-"Died by the visitation of aGod." reached us, and we have received that of Mr. Bedingfield, from the secretaries of the This man, after the accident, told me, as Provincial Medical Association Committee ; well as others, that he was a Shropshire but have not yet had room for their inserman; that he sustained the accident in tion. Northamptonshire, and had come along with The next Annual Meeting of the Provinhis boat, which is one of the long narrow cial Medical Association is advertised,with ones, down the canal to Manchester, and the published works of the Society, on the then to this town after the accident, Here cover of this week’s LANCET ; and we, have he sought lodgings, being unable to proceed been requested to draw attention to the anfarther; and after being so lodged one nouncement in this place. was a
stant,
as
verdict
night,and being without sufficiency of money to make any farther
out,
was
As
our
correspondent,
who
speaks
of
a
payments, he travelled bull-frog writer, is, we assure him, quite taken ill, almost opposite the very mistaken in his supposition, we have not
lodging-house, fell down,
was taken up by and conveyed to the publichouse, and there died, as before stated. Upon the inquest, it was stated that he had said that he had been ill during nine weeks, and that he had also said that he had been kicked by a horse. Be this, however, as it may, I never was summoned by the coroner, nor was my opinion asked as to what I thought was the cause of death. Now, Sir, I wish to ascertain from you whether there is any remedy for such a proceeding, Is it illegal or not ? Oneof the jurors told me that the coroner asked the jury if they were satisfied with the evidence already adduced, or whether they would resome watermen
published the right to make
remarks which he thought it the party in question. Mr. Lindlay. The question is, at present, one of time and apprenticeship, as well as money. If he desire to practice as an apothecary, the apprenticeship will be aecessary; so much depends on hi decision on this point, that we cannot further reply to his questions until his resolution be taken. However, an improvement in the law may, before he can be prepared, by the acquisition of knowledge, to practise medicine, award to the possessor of intellectual wealth, the honours and privileges which at present can be acquired by the ignorant purchaser on
of tickets and certificates.
IMPERFECT INQUEST.
quire the
the presence of the medical
coroner
invariably
man.
But
states that he is sutis-
thus biasses them. They also exthemselves satisfied, and thus ended the business. " Died by the visitation of God !" Why, he might have been poisoned! I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, A SUBSCRIBER TO THE LANCET.
fied, and To the Editor
of THE LANCET. SIR:—I was requested by the Overseel (being Town Surgeon) to visit a man whc was
lying
very ill.
at a public-house in this town I found him with the following
pressed
Yorkshire, May, 1837. symptoms :-Pulse very small, weak, and The man was not known to any person in undulating; countenance very anxious and this town, neither was his name ascertained. ghastly : on asking him if he had pain, he He was buried, of course, by the parish. referred me to his abdomen, which I found The name and address of our correvery tender generally, and presenting to the touch a very peculiar feel, something like were forwarded to rs with this spondent what is felt where eff’usion of blood has of which taken place. He said that he had been communication, the publication has until the prebeen accidentally dclayed crushed by a boat (in what is called a lock) sent a to the the five week. that it wall, days before; However, reply quesagainst wonder it did not kill him on the in- tion which it contains must have been deit turned him round several times ; rived by the writer some time since, from and so on. the remarks which we have made on such I ordered fomentations to the abdomen, inquests. At all events, ir,. this Number of gave him a fordial, and left word that he THE LANCET will be found sufficient present must be well looked after, as it was probable that he might die. He had made plenty comment on the subject.—ED. L. of water, and his bowels had been opened freely during the day. This, I forgot to say, was on the 2nd of May, at half-past ten, P.M., when I was called to see him, and at halfCORRESPONDENTS. past three, A.M., he died, being previously strongly convulsed. The coroner was out We shall tind room for the statements of of town, and did not arrive at home until Dr. Weatherill. the afternoon of the 4th of May, when hf The communication of Dr. Roland has summoned ajury for half-past five o’clock, us, and shall appear. and, after a hurried examination, returned reached The sick poor relief plan of Dr. M’Cabe of-"Died by the visitation of aGod." reached us, and we have received that of Mr. Bedingfield, from the secretaries of the This man, after the accident, told me, as Provincial Medical Association Committee ; well as others, that he was a Shropshire but have not yet had room for their inserman; that he sustained the accident in tion. Northamptonshire, and had come along with The next Annual Meeting of the Provinhis boat, which is one of the long narrow cial Medical Association is advertised,with ones, down the canal to Manchester, and the published works of the Society, on the then to this town after the accident, Here cover of this week’s LANCET ; and we, have he sought lodgings, being unable to proceed been requested to draw attention to the anfarther; and after being so lodged one nouncement in this place. was a
stant,
as
verdict
night,and being without sufficiency of money to make any farther
out,
was
As
our
correspondent,
who
speaks
of
a
payments, he travelled bull-frog writer, is, we assure him, quite taken ill, almost opposite the very mistaken in his supposition, we have not
lodging-house, fell down,
was taken up by and conveyed to the publichouse, and there died, as before stated. Upon the inquest, it was stated that he had said that he had been ill during nine weeks, and that he had also said that he had been kicked by a horse. Be this, however, as it may, I never was summoned by the coroner, nor was my opinion asked as to what I thought was the cause of death. Now, Sir, I wish to ascertain from you whether there is any remedy for such a proceeding, Is it illegal or not ? Oneof the jurors told me that the coroner asked the jury if they were satisfied with the evidence already adduced, or whether they would resome watermen
published the right to make
remarks which he thought it the party in question. Mr. Lindlay. The question is, at present, one of time and apprenticeship, as well as money. If he desire to practice as an apothecary, the apprenticeship will be aecessary; so much depends on hi decision on this point, that we cannot further reply to his questions until his resolution be taken. However, an improvement in the law may, before he can be prepared, by the acquisition of knowledge, to practise medicine, award to the possessor of intellectual wealth, the honours and privileges which at present can be acquired by the ignorant purchaser on
of tickets and certificates.