THE LATE DR. SANDES.
The Inquest. Ox Saturday last an inquest was held at Bombay on the body of the late Dr. Saiules, who died suddenly on the Friday morning previous, before Capt. Jackson, E.M., and a jury of 14. Patrick Connelly, who lived with deceased, deposed that he was taken ill on Wednesday morning, going off in a faint, which lasted two hours. Dr. Dalzeil was sent for, but was away from home, and in the meantime Dr. Sandcs recovered. He improved on Wednesday and Thursday, but was still confined to bed, being very weak. On Friday morning at 4.30 a.m. he was apparently well, being attended to by the boy who lived in the house, Joseph Donovan, whom he spoke to and told to take away the light and shut the door. At G. 30 a.m. he was heard to get out of bed, walk across the loom, and fall down with a ciaali. Donovan and Connelly rushed in and lifted him on to his bed, but he was dead before they laid him down. He suffered no pain, but pa«vd pff quietly without a contortion or a spasm, ftr, Dalziel, who made a pod nun (on examination of the body, being sworn, said : lam a legally qualified medical practitioner, registered, residing at Pukekohc. On Wednesday afternoon last, on returning from Mercer, I found a boy waiting mo with a note from Mrs Stratford, infoiming me that it was unnecessaiy for me to visit Dr Handes, as had been requested dining my absence, but asking me to send a dose of jjiedicinc, bromide of potassium and chicle of potassium, not having any of the chlcridpj I sent borne hydrate of chloial combined with bromide of potassium. I sent as much ot tl,c combination as would be a dose and a half, but greeted it to be taken in half tca-spoon-fu} dosps, 0^ which there were sixteen in the bottle, I n\sq &put a note, saying that [ wowW willingly vMfc D|> Namles if requltocl j T have not rasejvpd any message since to do ko. I have this daj , by oidp»? of the coroner, made a post mortem examination of the deceased, J)r Sarnies, The body was fairly nourished, with a moderate amount of fat upon it. Theio were no marks of violence externally, except a vpiy *}j#ht abrasion on the bridge of the nose, jyijjjch }}}\&h\> l™ ve neen caused by a fa)} upon q, shai-p p4ge, SKch as the edge Ol a tabjLe, shortfy bcfan> AfiS&U. \he lm>gs wave in a yery em. pljeseinatQUS poiy •Htfofl. shoving W th P tjpeea^od had been ftuhjee^ i>Q 4Sth«H* for q, fong time, othciwikfi they wm U} ft npnnal condition. 'Chore »'!i& ahon} a table - spoonful of aoi'ous fluid in the bag containing the heart. The heart was coated with fat and slightly enlarged, and the blood-vessels (H°tfs surface were gorged with dark hloo4," ftjf^ foeort itself was undergoing fatty derjenwiti/W; WJ contained in its chambers dark elotiW W9°4 f TJ?, e , liver was a little firmer in its swbsfcaHce tiwn usual, but, not absolutely diseased, ihe right kidney was much congested. The J/jffcwas not so. The urine in the ureters or i«JJft» Jfiftflu^g *° ie bladder from the kidneys GtottiilllP!} » little tl)ick r ale nrine. The bla4dep w% Riipty. The stomach contained nearly haw 4 6»tyf«J of thick genmous food (produced) consisting apparently of partly digested meat and onions ; judging from its consistency the (|e£6a^e/] had not drunk any fluid for a few hour* tffgyfOiis to his death: the mucous membpajw of £h(3 stomach was generally in the normal con4itiflj}, though there were a very few small pa tones %i congestion in it. Other parts of the body jyere in a healthy condition. Having heai-*i thg. evidence of the previous witnesses, and es#espred it along with what I have observed at tti£ pfjsf mortem examination, I am of opinion that feh# #?a£h of ifchp deceased was caused by the condition ,Ojf|idj^s fo##rt, and that he had not taken a-uy fl^ed[ic
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