250 TESTIMONY OF JOSEPH T. O 1 CONNOR. 



Q. Do you know what it contained ? A. Well, sir, I can state 

 what it was said to contain ; it contained the milk 



The COUNSEL We object. 



Q. Was it like or unlike that milk you saw taken afterwards 

 from the Black cow ? A. It was like it except that I saw in his 

 bottle none of the large clots with the stringy masses attached. 



Q. But in other appearances it was like that? A. Yes, sir. 



By the COURT Q. Which cow was that? A. The Black cow. 



By Mr. PEENTICE Q. What did your examination disclose ; state 

 how you conducted your examination of this and what it disclosed ? 

 A. I took that milk 



By the COURT Q. That was the Black cow? A. Yes, sir, and 

 tested it with red litmus paper and found it strongly alkaline on 

 the date I received the bottle. 



Q. Did you taste it ? A. I did by inadvertence. 



Q. Did you intentionally taste it? A. No, sir. 



Q. Well sir, go on ? A. I poured it then into a conical glass 

 which had been thoroughly cleansed by me, and allowed it to stand 

 for some hours ; I then examined a whitish sediment which appear- 

 ed at the apex of the cone within the glass and made repeated ex- 

 aminations, taking up various portions and examined them through 

 the microscope. 



Q. You examined it with the microscope of what power? A. I 

 estimate the power of the microscope as I used it to be about two 

 hundred and fifty diameters. 



Q. What did you find ? A. I found this white sediment which 

 was at the bottom of the glass to be loaded with fine pus corpuscles. 



Q. What is pus? 



(Objected to.) 



Q. You are a doctor ? A. I am a medical man by profession. 



Q. How long have you been in practice ? A. I graduated very 

 nearly ten years ago. 



Q. Have you made microscopic observations ? A. I have made 

 a large number of them. 



Q. What is pus ? A. Healthy pus, laudable pus because there 

 are a variety of pusses so that it is impossible to define them lau- 

 dable pus, as it is termed, is a thick creamy liquid of the specific 

 gravity of somewhere about 1.030 a state of the liquid to a certain 



