"Q. Were you some years ago afflicted with various troubles ? A. 

 Ulcerated stomach. - - - 



Q. Were you under care of physicians for this particular trouble ? 

 A. I was. 



Q. In what various cities ? A. Philadelphia, New York, Boston, 

 Chicago, St.Louis, San Francisco, Oakland. 



Q. In all of those cities you were treated by physicians for this 

 particular trouble with which you were suffering ? A. I was. 



Q. Will you just describe what was exhibited to you on the X-rays ? 

 A. When they held the plate before me and used the rubber gloves in 

 back to see themselves as they manipulated my intestines, I could see 

 little spots, some as big, perhaps, as the old-fashioned silver five-cent 

 piece. They were on the tube from the big intestine down to the lower 

 part, and there were small specks on the lower intestine where the bis- 

 muth had gone in. 



Q. Prior to taking the X-rays, do you know what was administered 

 to you in the way of internal medicine ? You said bismuth, didn't you ? 

 A. I did, yes. 



Q. Was that before the X-rays were finally taken? A. Yes. 



Q. How numerous, that is, how many in number were those spots 

 that were pointed out to you by the surgeons ? A. I don't know the 

 count, but there were quite a few. There were four or five on the big 

 tube, and then there were little specks on the upper part of my lower 

 intestine that I could see, but I did not count them or try to. 



Q. Without stating what it was, did the surgeons diagnose your 

 trouble and tell you what it was ? A. Yes. 



Q. How long were you under the care of physicians for this dis- 

 tress? .A. Off and on for about seven and a half years. 



Q. At the time you are speaking of, when you had your last confer- 

 ence with the surgeons, what was your condition, just describe it? 



Prosecuting Attorney: What time and place? 

 - JDefense Attorney: In San Francisco, at the A Colleges. 



A. : I could not rest, I could not get any sleep at night, I was in 

 more or less agony all the time. Everything I ate distressed me. They 

 told me if I had any affairs to attend to 



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