176 TESTIMONY OF ROBERT OGDEN DOREMUS. 



Q. Do you know whether the cow they call the " blue cow " is 

 a regular milker, or not ? A. I do not remember. 



Q. Can you tell me what proportion of the milk of either of 

 these cows, Gipsy, Charlie, Ked, or Blue, bears to the milk of 

 Star, Mooley, or the black cow, which gives the most ? A. I cannot 

 make an answer from memory ; I have got it all down in my notes ; 

 I would not like to make an answer from memory because I might 

 be mistaken. 



Q. Do you know whether or not, Mr. Mulford is to milk the cows 

 Star, Mooley and black cow, any longer ? 



(Objected to ; objection sustained.) 



BOBERT OGDEN DOREMUS, sworn and examined by Mr. LAWRENCE, 

 testified as follows : 



Q. What is your profession, Dr. Doremus ? A. I am a chemist 

 by profession. 



Q. What experience have you had as an expert in criminal cases ? 

 A. In this very building, some eighteen years ago, we had an im- 

 portant trial involving reputation and life. Two whole bodies were 

 analyzed, the first and only time this was done. The earth around 

 the grave was analyzed, the coffin was analyzed ; the lining of the 

 coffin and the nails of the coffin; the Croton water was analyzed ; 

 the glass and procelain vessels employed were analyzed and for the 

 first time with my able assistant, Dr. B. L. Budd, and especial care 

 was taken that the private laboratory with every vessel new and with 

 all the chemicals pure and many of them made pure 



Mr. PRENTICE Is it necessary to go into this ? 



The COURT I suppose not ; we all know how eminent a chemist 

 Dr. Doremus is. We do not want a history of this case. 



Q. Doctor, have you made the subject of milk a specialty ? A. I 

 have, sir. 



Q. Have you lectured a great many times on milk ? A. I have 

 lectured upon the subject since the year 1850, in medical colleges, and 

 am lecturing now each year upon this thing, devoting from two to 

 three lectures each season upon it. In 1854, I think, I made an ex- 

 amination of what was called solidified milk. I accompanied a 

 number of gentlemen from the Academy of Medicine to a locality 



