Was that of the nature of what you call precipitation?—Yes, my Lord.
(By Mr. Sergt. Pell.) Well, Sir?—I added some solution of phosphate of soda, and a solution of lunar caustic, and I then obtained a yellow precipitate.
(Cross-examined by Mr. Sergt. Lens.)
I understood you to say that you never did, in point of fact, examine the body of a person that died of Cholera Morbus?—I never did; I only conclude, as a matter of science, that such would be the appearance; but I never did, in point of fact, open the body: I only conclude that that would be the sort of inflammation.
Now, as to this decoction of onions, would one taking rabbits smothered in onions be said to be taking a decoction?—The juice of the onions would be conveyed into the stomach: perhaps it would be as well to explain to the Court what is my motive.
(By Mr. Justice Abbott.) We don't want that: we only want to know whether a decoction be the same as that which would be conveyed by eating boiled onions?—The same fluid would be conveyed into the stomach.
(By Mr. Sergt. Lens.) That is, a decoction of onions?—Yes, Sir.
But the greatest part is drawn off by the preparation?—Some must infallibly remain. The experiment I made was, by cutting an onion into various pieces, and putting it into two wine-glassesful of water, and upon that decoction my experiment proceeded—or by pouring boiling water over it, or boiling it for two minutes, and then I tried the experiment both with the liquid and with the boiled onion, and the effects were the same.
So that the small quantity that remained in the one case, had the same effect as the extract in the other?—Yes, Sir.
That which is used at table must be considerably weaker than that sort of preparation?—A considerable part, but not the whole, otherwise the flavour would be all gone.
