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PRE FA ( E. 
 
 On Siitiinlav, Oth May, ISfJB, tliere tiprjiared in tlio T*)ronto Dnily Teh(fi\,ph, 
 snmo portions of the evidence f^iven jU an Inquest held at the Provincinl Liinntie 
 Asylum, Toronto, on the b(>dy of Mary Boyd. This partial publieution of the 
 evidence, and an editorial articl" in the issue of the Monday followiru:. reflected 
 raomt unjustly and calumniously both upon me and upon my son. I h;id !in ex- 
 planatory letter inserted in the Tehgraph of 13th inst. A very limited edition of 
 that day's paper was printed, and it wrt.s soon found impossible to procure a copy 
 of it ;it any price. 
 
 Since then, on the 18th May, a letter appeared in the DtiUy T'lfgr<iph,\'vnn\ 
 Dr. Workman, Superintendent of the Provincial Lunatic A.«(ylum, tnaiiing no actual 
 eliarsies, but rather insinuations against nie ; 1 answered this by a eommunicitinn, 
 which from its i^rent length the Editor of the Tdpgraph refused to i»/sert, although 
 1 *jold him that [ would not object to its being published in two successive issues 
 of his paper if he thought it too long for one. 
 
 Wli )t the re^pectable portion of the Toronto press, think of the verdict of 
 the jury, will be seen from the extracts first given IVoin the Globe ;ind the Lwihr. 
 At the end vtiii be found the comments of the same papers on the whole ca.xe. 
 
 The garbled report of the evidence given in the JVltgrcph, very greatly 
 uiislfd the public upon some important points, I have, therefore, thought it 
 better that they should see the evidence in full. I have procured a certified copy 
 of it from the County Crown Attorney, from which it has here been printed 
 verbatim, just as tlie Coroner wrote it down with ail its errors of punctuation, 
 grammar and arrangement uncorrected. I did not, howover, consider it 
 proper to put in italics the words that Dr. Hallowell so unwarrant-illy under- 
 lined, (sec note, page 19.) to give intensity to what he thought would be 
 injurious to me. 
 
 The time that was spent in procinirig the evidence .uid ^;ef!ing it printed, 
 must be my excuse for the delay fhut has occurred in setting ray refutation oi' 
 Dr. Workman's slanders before the puhiic. 
 
 I iiavc reprinted both Dr. Workman's letter, and tlie editorial article from 
 the Telegroph, as without them the dialogue which follows would be 
 sc'trcely intelligible-- and it is only fair that both sides of the question should 
 hfi seen. 
 
I'RKI \< K. lii. 
 
 I have a!80<:iven a short uamitiv of'soiin: of tin; particulars of Mary Boyd'a 
 iUnes.- and duatli. Tlu.s, with tlii; evident;.- taken at the irifjUfst wiii einible 
 those who have not yet htiard aiiythiiig of tins distrejisint/ chho to undcrstarxl it 
 more ea.sily. 
 
 It will probably be asked by many, why such delicate and paiiiAil matters 
 Hhould be pbccd before the public at all , this sin does not lie upon me, hut 
 upon tiiose who have attackeij m-.- avid whom I .ini aii.swering. 
 
 I should hive been content witli a much briefer defence had the vindication 
 of u»y son and myself been my sole object. For the length to whioli T have been 
 led, I muj^t plead in justifio:ition nsy urgent de^'ire to redeem from foul siaijJer 
 the fair i.ime of a modest and virtuous young woman. She is now dead and 
 beyond the reacli of si-urrilousi ricw.spjperti, but her i^ood nmie and memory ire 
 doubtless dear to tho^e whom she has left, hehiofj. 
 
 AnotVii-r and even move powerful motive has been to vinJic ite the saored 
 cause of tl;e <;reat truth t-;. which I have given my alleL'ianco, mid which mij^dit, 
 in f<ome measure be pieiudiced through me. I, of course, refer to Homa«pathy, 
 which I firmly believe to be the lireau^st boon which bus, in these latter ages, 
 been v-ouclusafed to afflicted humanity by the (Jiver of all good. 
 
 This is my apology for obtruding upon the public matters of sn ex- 
 tiemely painful a nature, and I hope it will be found sufficient to justify the 
 expre.-^sious of reprobatiuii whicii T have allowed to appear in regard to those 
 ^vho have imp'-.'^ed upon me this mo>t unplea*«nt duty. 
 
 1). ("AMIMIKI.L, M. I). 
 
 li>8 B:iv Street, 'I'.tront.). 
 
EVIDENCE. 
 
 [L.S.] Offici of the Cou-ntt C'aowN Attorney, 
 
 COl'NTT OF YOBK. 
 
 I, John McNab. County Crown Attorney 
 in and for tho County of York, Lerehy CfRTiFr, 
 thfd the annexed ptipor writing contains a true 
 copy of the papers connected niih the In- 
 quisition held on the btxly of Mary Bovd, as 
 the same were filed in this office, on the 28th 
 day of May, A D. 1868. 
 
 JOHN McNAB, C.C.A., Count;/ of York 
 per J Jackks. 
 Datjbd this Thirtieth day of May, A. D. 1868. 
 
 First Day of Inqnest. 
 
 Matiliia Campbell. — I am the wife Dr. Duncan 
 CampboU. I knew the deceaiied Mary Boyd. I 
 last saw her alive on Wednesday, the 29th. ."^he 
 was thPD in good bodily health. Her mind was 
 rery unsettled, wandering. At the time she had in 
 ray employment from the 1st of Jan'y last. * When 
 I took her into my service her mental and bodil} 
 health were perfect. I did not observe anything 
 wrong in her state of mind u.iiil a f >rtnight before 
 she left mo to be removed to the asylum. From 
 that period she spoke from time to time of hell, 
 and subjecti pertaining thereunto. She was nat- 
 urally of a religious turn of mind. She had pre- 
 vieus to this been attending on Rev. Mr. Caughey's 
 miuistriiCtiou. Although her conduct had been 
 strange for a length of time previou.« to the fort- 
 night abom iudioated, I did not take alarm until 
 she threw herself into the well in my bouse on 
 Monday the 27th, in the afternoon : she was rescued 
 by the servant boy hearing the splashing. I saw 
 her immediately after. Upon asking her why she 
 had done this, she said it was better to be drowned 
 than to be burnt. 
 
 She had been constantly talking about being 
 burnt in hell since she attended Mr. Caughey's 
 minstrations ; certain that she would be one of the 
 victims. She was moved the same night iuto a 
 bed upstairs, and was never afterwards left alone. 
 
 She had been considered by Drs. Campbell, Hall 
 and Adams as a fit subject for the Lunatic Asylum, 
 and was examined on Monday by these gentlemen 
 with a view to having her removed thither. She 
 was about to be removed on Wednesday between 
 4 and 6 in the afternoon. She had been dressed by 
 my daughter but pretended to be sleepy and want- 
 
 Erroneously printe i 1st June in Telegraph. 
 
 ed to lie down, and after sleeping some timf' she 
 said she was hungry. I made .some toast f<>r her, 
 and while I wa.^ getting the t'oi-t and tta fT her, 
 the jumjipd out of ^ed, on my return I saw her 
 with a knife it: her hand and cut her 'hroat 
 with it.f I knocked the knife out of her 
 hand. I then went for the Doctor into tho next r<>oaj 
 to call him, he being up stairs. While I was :alling 
 the Doctor she seized another knifo, with which 
 rhe is suiipoeed to have cut her throat a second 
 time. When the Doctor came down I retired. I 
 came down very soon after. She was then on tho 
 bed, and Dr. '"amiibeU with Dr. hilars wire dress- 
 ing tho wound. Immediately after that she was 
 removed to the Asylum. I have not .seen her 
 siuee. I heard of her death this morning. 
 
 To the Foreman. — She weiit out generally twice 
 a week and returned about 9 o'clock. She attend- 
 ed a night school, Mr. Uaskctt's on Queen ^trtet, 
 accompanied by some girl. I never saw any 
 young man with her. She att«nded church regu- 
 larly and Sunday school too. 
 
 She went bead flrst into the well. She wa« not 
 more than a minute in before she was rescued. 
 
 .^he was perfectly aware of coming hero. It 
 was her wish to go the asylum a:- she had given 
 so much trouble to the family. 
 
 She had never been in bad health that 1 
 am aware of. 
 
 She never staid away over hours from my house. 
 I looked upon her as a faithful servant while in 
 my employment. 
 
 She was a scholar in the Presbyterian Sunday 
 school. 
 
 Was of a religious turn of mind. 
 She was nineteen years of age. 
 She was only an attendant at church, not a 
 member. 
 
 DcKCAS (Jampbs!,.'., M. D. — I am tho husband of 
 former witjess, Mrs. Campbell. 
 
 I may premire that having been present, and 
 heard the evidence of Mrs. Campbell, I corroborate ^ 
 it in all respects, so far as my knowledge goes. 
 For about two weeks previous to Mary Boyd being 
 taketi to the Asylum I had began to see that she 
 was drifting into insanity ; at times she appeared 
 perfectly .veil, at others talked as no sane person 
 would talk, chiefly about death a^d hell, and the 
 speedy termination of tho world. ' 
 
 Upon oiie occasion she said it was better to be 
 dead than alive. From that time I began to ap- 
 prehend the possibility of suicide. I called in Dr. 
 
 t The Co.-oner has here succeeded in making it 
 look as if Mrs. Campbell said that she herself had 
 cut the ffirl'ii throat I 
 
n 
 
 EVIDENCE TAKEN AT THE INQUEST. 
 
 Adama in cuD«ultation. and admiuiRtored the rem- 
 edies loyself. They counisted chiefly of calmatives 
 (to soothe the irritability of the mind), but they 
 had no effect. 
 
 On Monday I sent for the Rht. Mr Yo-ing- bat 
 he told me her mind was quite gone. She told my 
 wife that her fema!4 condition was deranged, but 
 afterwards found that it was not so bad ; that it 
 passed off. I used some remedies!, with a view of 
 improving that condition, a(iter which she was 
 better, but I cannot say whether on atcount oj 
 these or after thett. After cutting her throat she 
 remained ten minutes in great excitement, notable 
 to speak. I sent for Dr. Lizars to help me dress 
 the wound. The excitement abated m ten min- 
 utes. Resisted all efforts to gire assistance until 
 Dr. Lizars came or soon after. We then managed 
 to get her carefully bandaged up. I left her at 
 the Asylum undor favorable c>roumitanees, and 
 bat for the attacic of bronchitis she might have 
 got better. I continued to dee her with Dr. Work- 
 man in my professional capacity until yesterday, 
 at one o'clock, p.m. I beard of her death this 
 morning from Dr. Workman. 
 
 To the Forer:an — I never administered medicine 
 to the deceased for the purpose of regulating her 
 female condition, before the iosanity. I am pretty 
 confident she never consulted any modioal man 
 except myself while in my serrice. 
 
 Second Day of Inquest- 
 
 .lof*KPH WouKMAN, M.D , Medical Superintend- 
 ent uf the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, being duly 
 aworii, depuseth as follows . — 
 
 The deceased, Mary Boyd, was admitte»d by me 
 into the Provincial Lunatic Asylum on Wednesday 
 last, the 99th ot April, on a certificate of lunacy, 
 signed by three Homucopathic physicians and 
 rertjied by the Mayor of ihU etly-* Application for 
 her admittance was made on the S7th April by Dr. 
 Campbell's son to wlmm I give the usual printed 
 circular of question-s. id.4iit;d to all applicant* 
 for admission of lunatiia. u'lj nesting him to nave it 
 filled up and »oiit in to lue as soon as possible. 
 Between twelve and one o'clock on the 29th, Dr. 
 Campbell himself brought the circular, and I gave 
 him a printed form of medical certificate of lunacy 
 to be used in the case, awarding to the patient, in 
 consideration of the urgency uf her symptoms, pre- 
 ferential admisbion, though a very large number 
 of applications before this one stood on thd regis- 
 ter, as is constantly the fact. The deceased was 
 brought to the Asylum in the evening in a cab, 
 accompanied bv Dr. Campbell and his son. 1 re- 
 ceived her at the front door. She wa« in the cab, 
 sitting by the side of Dr. Campbell, and leaning her 
 head on his breast. She looked very pale. 
 
 Dr. Campbell told me a great calamity bad 
 arisen since he last saw me. 1 asked what it was, 
 and he informed me by a sign of his hand that she 
 had cut her throat, but he and Dr Lizars had applied 
 sutures to the wound. I had her carried up stairs 
 to Ward No. 3, and placed in the only single-bedded 
 room at command. I placed two nnraes in charge of 
 her, with instructions that, on no account, she sunild 
 for a moment be left alona, and I applied a leather 
 
 • The words in italics were omitted from the re- 
 port giren in the Tdograph. The term " Homoeopa- 
 thic " in the same seBteBce.giTes the clae to tiiB whole 
 pwseciUion that {flowed. 
 
 muff to the hands to prevent her attempting further 
 injury to herself, being well aware that lunatics who 
 have faileil in accom pushing suicide are never to be 
 trusted, as many of them have been known to tear 
 open the wound after dressing if their bands have 
 been left unrestrained. 
 
 The patient was able to speak, but I did not en- 
 courage her to do so. I talked soothingly to bar, 
 hoping to calm her mind, which I fonnd wasfearfally 
 disturbed under the conviction that she was dam- 
 ned, and, as she said, would go into the flames of 
 hell. Uhe complained much of pain from the man- 
 ner in which her head was made fast, by bringing 
 her trcnt hair on each side down to her breast, ana 
 passing it through backwards under the arm-pita, 
 the two ends meeting behind being tied.* Dr. 
 Campbell explained that this fastening was made in 
 order to keep down the chin and prevent the head 
 moving, and ho requested that it, should not be in- 
 terfered with. I saw the patient several times be- 
 fore I went to bed. 
 
 I gave her some medicine prescribed by Dr. 
 Campbell. He asked me had I any objections to it. 
 He called it Bryonia. I said I had none, as I be- 
 lieved his doses would be of the infmitenrnnlly rmali 
 ordtr,\ and therefore the next beat to cold water. I 
 could not myself then see any clear medical indic»- 
 tion, and in such circumstances 1 think the correct 
 coarse is to give no upedicine, but to watch closely 
 until we see what is really called for 
 
 I was informed by the attendants next morning 
 that the patient had refused to take the medicine 
 after she learned that it was prescribed by Dr. 
 Campbell. The attendants also informed me she 
 disliked Dr. Campbell very much, and bad talked 
 much about him and his son, but, as I rm always 
 very cautioas in interpreting the expressions of the 
 insane, 1 did nut attach any importance to those 
 statements. It is very common for insane persona 
 to manifest strong dislike for those whom before 
 their insanity they have liked best. Dr. Campbell 
 came to the asylum to see the patient on the fore- 
 noon of the next day, 30th, but I refused to let him 
 see her for the reason above given. I did not tell 
 Dr. Campbell the actual reason, as I did not wish to 
 hurt his feelings, and as Ac manifented much kind/eel ■ 
 tngfor thepatieivt,and yreat tolieitudtfor her recovery. 
 1 told him I feit convinced his present-e would dis- 
 tnrb her, and therefore I must decline allowing his 
 visitation at that time. 
 
 There were then no symptoms of inflammatory 
 action, but the face was puffed and the eyelids 
 much swollen. On the night Thursday, the 30th, 
 I prescribed for her, as .she was very restless and 
 much excited in mind, four drachms of watery in- 
 fusion of Opiiim, of the strength of eight grains to 
 the ounce, a teaspoonful to be given every hour, 
 if the excitement continues. 
 
 On the morning of Friday, 3rd May.J I saw her 
 early, and learned that my brother had been with 
 her in the night owing to the severity of her mental 
 
 * This mode of securinir the closuri^ of the wound 
 was the moat effectual and the least painful. 
 
 t This sneer of Dr. Workman was not likely to in- 
 crease the confidence of the patient in the efficacy of 
 the remedy, and it is no great matter of wonder that 
 she soon refused to take any more of it. Dr. Work- 
 man has tried to make it appear that this was a 
 MToof that the girl was afraid to take anyUiingfrom 
 Dr. Campbell's hand I 
 
 \ Friday was the iRt of May, but it is given as above 
 in the official copy from which this is printed verb*- 
 tim. 
 
EVIDENCE TAKJV AT THE IXQUEST. 
 
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 symptoms. She was oow manifestly suSoring 
 under insufficient breathing. The cheeks and lips 
 were of a livid hue, the ooantenanoe sbowod great 
 distress, and tho inspirations were very laborious. 
 There were, besides, clear indicatiuns that air had 
 entered the cellular tissue beneath the skin, over 
 the breast, nook and face. It wm my ojiinion that 
 one or more of the sutures in the throat sho'iki 
 be undone, but I wished to have Dr. Campbell 
 present at this process. 
 
 I therefore, at a qnnrter past sevon, sent a note 
 to him apprising him of the statt of the case, and 
 of my views. Ho sent me a note lU reply, saying 
 he would come ap between eleven and twelve 
 o'clock.* Ho came accordingly, accompanied by 
 Dr. Smith, vl tlio Uuitod States, and his (Dr. 
 Campbell's) son. He at onco acquiesced in the 
 proposal tooui vb ^■^t-'re , and he out ithimself. 
 lieliefto the breath Tas thus gi»on 
 
 Dr. Campball obicc, jd to rhe tempevataro of the 
 room, as too low. I. did iiot coincide in this view, 
 but, being desirou.- <.l meeting his wishes as far ub 
 at all possible, [ pointed out HDother rcioui, thfiu 
 occupied by a very feeble piitienl, but I said the 
 heat mifiht bo too great at timot, as the ruom was 
 just over the heating furnaces, the flues of wnioh 
 passedfUp in one of tte walls. Ha approved of it. 
 and the pat'cnt was very soon placed ia it. 
 
 At this time it was ikseortained by the stethe- 
 Boope that no air was entering tiie right lune. Dr. 
 Campbell expressed his iiolicf that this was caused 
 by blood in the bronch;ul tubrS of this lung, which 
 had passed down into them from the wuund.f 
 Within a coupb of hours the aspuct of thi; paient 
 had changed from a livid to a rosy hue, and the 
 pylse had become very rapid. These wore the 
 clearest indications of inflammatory reaction. 
 Frequent cou.,hing took jiluoe, .iikI thii tluid thu> 
 brought ui> escaped by the wound and by the 
 mouth. Dr. Campbell visited her again before 
 bed-time. 
 
 On the next diiy, Saturday, she expectorated 
 large quantities of very offensive matter, which 
 from it! colour and consistency was evidently 
 pne. I prescribed for her tincture of Digitalis 
 and HyoBcyamus, with simple syrup. She took 
 from me everything I offered, and manifested much 
 kind feeling. She alwiiys pressed me to stay by 
 her or to return soon. 1 converged with lior a 
 groat deal, but confined my words to religious con- 
 eolation, which she appeared to leceive very gladly. 
 I also read to her from ♦he New Testanieut.J Thi; 
 Rev. Provost Whittaker visited her on Sunday, 
 and on Monday, and spcke very calmly and ooq. 
 
 • Dr. Workman'ji note by no mc-aus sufficiently de- 
 soribed the extreme urfrency of the cas'-, or Dr. 
 Campbell would have attended to the call at once. 
 
 t This is incorrect. Dr. Campbell no doubt told 
 Dr. Workman that a 'onsidenihle quantit.v of blood 
 had jtot down the trachea : but he attributed the 
 
 .^allness of the sound on the right jidi! of the chest, 
 to which be called Dr. Workman's iitteutiun to in- 
 Hammatory ongorKemont : stutim; at the snmo 
 time, that this, if not caused, was at least ifreatly 
 asgravated by the cold, dry air that she was breath - 
 ing, and that unless at once removed to a warmer ,tud 
 moister atmosphere, she would very soon die. Or 
 Smith late of the United States army, and Ur. 
 Campbell's ion were both present, and can corrobo- 
 rate this statement. 
 
 I Dr. Workman is a Unitarian. 
 
 solingly to her. He prayed with her, and she 
 manifestly followed his prayer, and repeated, as 
 well as shecould, his words. She frequently asked 
 me would she go to Jesus, and when ? 1 replied 
 that if sbe wished to go to Jesus, and prayed to go 
 to him, she ccrtair.ly would go to him. This is 
 but a lamplo of her latter words. I think her 
 mind became peaceful as to her hopes of salva'.ion 
 — to fitf at least an hi'r »'»»«««* Ktate permitted. 
 
 She died on the morning of Tuesday, 5th instant, 
 at a quarter past three, I was not piesent at her 
 <leatb. The cause of death will be best explained 
 by the gentlemen making the post-mortem ex- 
 amination, and their discoveries may also throw 
 Some light on the cau^e of bor insanity. 
 
 I;ij.'iied, ,Io.*Ki H Workman', M D 
 
 Sworr before me, thi.s sixth 
 
 day cfMay l^^)8. 
 ?:iqne(l, vv.M. U*i lowi. i i., M.I)., 
 (Jo inner. 
 
 To THK CoRONKB. — I had not ih< hci,>t il^itbi of 
 her iiiniiiiity when admitted. I)r. Campbell as- 
 jignad to mc 8? th" immediate cause of insanity* 
 words used by Kev. Mr. Caughey, while preaching 
 and dire-'tc'l (as she suppo.sed) specially to her, 
 while sitting in the gallery ot Elm Street Church, 
 iis I heard afterwards. The 'vords were to the 
 effect " that he Mi. Caughey saw a youn^ fem.tlo 
 sittinii in tiio gallery that was goia,^ to hell,'" and 
 she applied it to hor.^eif ; in conversations I had 
 with her she ratiued ih;it statomeot. 
 
 rrom Dr. Campbell ;^ .<t*\tc,Mieijt tn tuy^ielf, 
 which I h;id no reason to doubt, there a.> .^up- 
 ^)re^^•il•Il <if the mcnsc.-".! He also stated i.hat Lhe 
 nvtoration of thi? function was most imjxirtant, and 
 that a mean.* he h.id found of groat value was 
 in thi.-i oa,-;o u -^d by him which he explained to 
 me consisreii in the applicatii^u of ;)ulr,tiiiic e.tiit*:- 
 7ii<iit\ b> means i>f gulvanie ajqiaratup being uppli- 
 cd to the mamma or tireast of the feuialf and the 
 other extremity tc the ■'■< \ilni or mouth of the 
 wiirab. I cxpre^sf^d ii'« r>piuion upon the propriety 
 "1' impropriety of thi,' proceeding He further 
 stated th.it atter thi--. there appealed a di>-'ch.irge. § 
 
 He told me she was in love with hi,-- .-on and that 
 .she had said tohim{Dr.Canipbell)thi»t he must give 
 
 * f>r Campbell viewed this religious excitement 
 ;i.5 the evidence, but never as the '"(/"'■of her int-anity, 
 and stated this to Dr. Workman. 
 
 + Dr. Workman has again incorrectly reported 
 what Dr. Campbell stated tj> him.— The actual words 
 used were "she suffers from difliculty at her men.»- 
 (rual periods, and will most likely have an agcra- 
 vation of her mental troubles when her ne.\t period 
 comes on." The apparently slight ditTerence between 
 •■difficulty'" and " supprc-'siMn," which it would 
 have app.'ared mere hvpeivritioismto have noticed at 
 the beginning of the Inquest, became all-important 
 in it« bearing towards the close. 
 
 I Dr. Campbell never made use of the term galvanic 
 ''«.i'e»(«»(«if," as that word would have given an er- 
 roneous idea of the vitaliKing influence exerted by 
 galvanism or more properly " Faradization.'' But 
 this idea of excitemrnt, seems to be the only notion 
 entertained of the effect of this agent by the medical 
 witnesses, none of whom probably could tell the dif- 
 ference between the action of the positive and nega- 
 tive poles. 
 
 § The actual words used by Dr. Campbell were : 
 "the disoharge re-appeared " 
 
via 
 
 EVIDENCE TAKEN AT THE INQUEST. 
 
 her hU son in marriage. lie mentioned as indica- 
 tive of her mental aberration (to convince me) that 
 she had stated that his son had «exuai intercoureie 
 with her in her bed.I said that such a revelation from 
 a person really insane conld not, uncorroborated, bo 
 regarded as of any value. During hor illness she 
 expressed a wish ti' see I»r. Campbell's son which 
 I did not desire to gratify. Some time on 
 Saturday during Dr. Campbtll'a presence she 
 manifestod very angry feelings towards him. 
 Phe said Oh ! the man that brought mo to this ; he 
 (Dr. C.) asked what she said?* Ik- then said to 
 her "you committed the act yourself," which I 
 understood him to mean the wound in the throat. 
 Dr. Campbell stated to mp that he had given her a 
 dose of Poduphyllin on the day she was admitted 
 to the Asylum. 
 
 To thbFuekma.v — She was quite quiet whan she 
 arrived here (at the Asylum). She complained of 
 no pain, except that which referred to the wound. 
 The room was not a hot room, it wa-s heated with 
 the same apparatus as the rest of the estabiiih- 
 ment ; the views of Dr. Campbell wore carried 
 out, in so far as removing her to a higher tem- 
 perature were concerned. I was apprehensive 
 that she might not recover from the first. Two 
 nurses wore in constant attendance night and day 
 and did not find any inconvenience from the tem- 
 perature. /*odo/>Ay//»u is a powerful cathartic, f 
 Mary Boyd was unwilling to see Dr. Campbell, his 
 visit-! were distasteful to her. Dr. Campbell was 
 uniformly kind and solicitous for the girl's welfare. 
 
 To THE CoROKER — I made no -ritical examina- 
 tion in the case of Mary Boyd as I adopt as a 
 jule to treat all females aj I should wish own 
 daughter to be treated. " 
 
 Signed, Joseph WoRKM.tN, M.D. 
 
 Sworn as above, 
 
 W. H., Corono: 
 
 To A Juror-— Other causes might have caused 
 insanity, but not of the religious form under 
 which she was admitted. 
 
 Toronto, May 6th, 1868. 
 
 CHiELEj VjLLk^sct Bkrrtmak, D., and Jaubs 
 H.RiCHARD30.v M. D., being* worn dcp.oM and say : 
 We this morning made a post mortem examina- 
 tion of the body of Mary Boyd, lying in the Mor- 
 tuary of the Prorinoial Lunatic Aiylum. It was 
 of mid lie itature, well formed and well nouriihed 
 apparently that of a person about twenty or 
 twenty-one years old. There wero no marks of 
 Tiolence about the body, with the exception of a 
 wound on the front of the neck. This was abont 
 ?> inches long, irregularly eonoave downwards o.. 
 upper border, passing through the anterior half 
 
 • Her articulation of words was so imperfect, from 
 the state of her throat, that almost anything could 
 bo made out of the indistinct sounds she uttered. 
 L'.\ Camuboll was quite as close to her as Dr. Work- 
 roan on this occasion, and is of opinion that she tried 
 to say to him. with reference to her throat : "why did 
 • you do this?" upon which Dr Campbell answered : 
 " you forget. Mary, you did this voursclf." Dr. Work- 
 man h.a.-? endeavoured to rive this a totally dififerent 
 meaning. 
 
 t Its "power " as a cathartic of course depends upon 
 the dose administered. 
 
 of the ring lormed by lower border of thyriod 
 with the cricoid cartilages. The edges of the 
 wound were in a semi-gangrenous condition with- 
 out any sign of attempt at repair : offensive pus 
 escaped freely from the wound. On laying open 
 the chest and removing the coverings of the 
 trachea, the right lung was throughout in a state 
 of red hepatixation, the left lung adherent but 
 otherwise healthy. Intense oongestion of the 
 trachea throughout its whelo extent, and its upper 
 portion, as well as the parts superficial to it be- 
 neath the integument were in a semi-gangre- 
 nous state. Heart normal. Intestines and lirec 
 and other abdominal organs healthy. All the 
 organs of generation highly congested, particu- 
 larly the left ovary, and the posterior surface of 
 the fundus of the uterus. The uterus was about 3 
 inohes long from its fundus to the edge of the os. 
 Its cavity was normal in dimension and its struo- 
 ture normal.* Some blood, apparently menstrual 
 in its character, was found in tho upper part of the 
 vagina, and a fibrinous co.«t about the sice of a 
 small goose-quill occupied the interior of the cavi- 
 ty of the uterus.f 
 
 The head was also examined. There was Lothing 
 whatever abnormal in the brain or its membranes, 
 excepting that tho vasoular points of the cerebrum, 
 espeoially on the right side, were more numerous 
 and larger than usual. 
 
 The death of the deceased no doubt resulted 
 from the combined effeet ot aoute inflammatiou of 
 the right lung (which, in all probability resulted 
 from the irritation of the air passages caused by 
 the wound in the larynx), and vital depression as 
 manifested by the entire absence of any effort at 
 repair oi the wound. 
 
 Signed, Charles Valakck Berrtuan, M. D« 
 Signed, James U. RiCHARD30!r, M. D.| 
 
 To the Coroner, — We examined the parts of 
 generation, and from this examination we found 
 the hymen almost obliterated.^ altho' we do not 
 think this is an invariable mark of the absence of 
 virginity. In the state of congestion in which we 
 found the organs, the application of galvanic elec- 
 tricity would aggravate congestion, and was a 
 proceeding entirely contrary to decency and pro- 
 priety. 
 
 Signed, James U. RicHARogoN, M. D. 
 Signed, Charles V. Bbbstiia>-, M.D. 
 Sworn -before me this 
 
 sixthday of May, 
 
 1868, W.Hallowell, M.D. 
 
 By the Coroner, — If the application of galvanism. 
 as described by Dr. Campbalf in a ease of arrest of 
 menstruation were to be followed by a return of 
 discharge, would yon still consider that it would 
 aggravate the condition T 
 
 Answer by Dr. Richardson, — I do not think that 
 
 * Dr. Workman subsequently tried to make it ap- 
 pear that'the womb was twice its proper size. 
 
 t This is the Dysmenorrhoeal membrane to which so 
 muchreference will be found hereafter. It has been 
 considered by most authors, a certain evidence of 
 sterility. 
 
 t The time when, and tho probable mode in which 
 this partial obliteration was effected, will bo con- 
 sidered hereafter, in the " Dialocue between Dr. 
 Campbell and Mr Blank," whore the question of 
 "propriety'' is also discussed. 
 
KVIDENCE T.4KFN AT THE INQIIST. 
 
 UC 
 
 tber<.oi of a aan^uiueous discharge coming on •ft4sr 
 fiuoh application cjuld be any proof that the con- 
 gestion had been reliarod, on tbo contrary I tbiuk 
 the eoQ^'Ostion might bo aggrarated.* 
 
 Signed, Ja.uks H. RicHABDSoy. 
 
 Au8wer b> Dr Borrymau,— I am of opinion that 
 ID a case m whioh active oongegtion of tno uterine 
 or;;aus oxiau, associated with Dysmenorrhoea — the 
 application of eleotrioity to the congested organs, 
 even if a partial discharge were to show itself— the 
 powerful stimuiu?! woald undoubtedly aggravate 
 the hjperoemic condition of the parts. 
 
 feigned. CHARr.KS V. Bkbryuax, M. D. 
 
 As to indelicacy of the application, would it be 
 more so than the uia of a catheter, or of the specu- 
 lum in uterine disease, and are not such means in 
 constant use by tuedical men of high standing in 
 the case of aumarried females ? 
 
 By Dr. Riahardson,— I do not think that any 
 medical man of high standing, or of any good 
 standirig, would ever think of praposing to an un- 
 married woman, such a proeeedure as the intro- 
 ductioTi of any instrument, either of catheter into 
 the meatus urinarins or into the vagina,t or of spe- 
 culum, exeept in the moit urgent necessity, and 
 after all nth or available means of relief had been 
 entirely t .hausted. 
 
 Signed, Jiuk3 II. Kicbardbox. 
 
 I am of opinion that the catheter, or any other 
 instrument siiould not be introduced into the blad- 
 der or vagina of any woman, more especially into 
 the parti of a virgin giri,§ unless when every other 
 remedy 'ails. I would further add that the ipec- 
 ulum has unfortunately been much abused in the 
 hands of unprinoipleJ practitioners. 
 »i J Signed, Ch*bl««V. BiRRTUAX.'MrD; 
 
 I quite coincide with Drs. Richardson and Ber- 
 ryman as to the impropriety of using such means 
 except in cases of extreme peril. 
 
 Signed, D. Campbell, li.D. 
 
 Jji.NK McCoNNArHTV— I aiu one of the day 
 nursei in the Asylum, and have been herv 
 about seven months. I recollect seeing the late 
 Alary Boyd about 9 in the evening of the day 
 Wednesday 29th, she was admitted. She 
 appeared very weak. She was immediately at- 
 tended to by Dr. Workman. I was fetched out of 
 my own bedroom to attend her during the first 
 Light of her admission, 
 
 • Edttcatod ph>'sioians to whatever school of Modi- 
 cinethey may belong, will read with surprise the 
 SI range statement that "conKestion inight bo aggra- 
 vated by a discharge " It only shows the len^ to 
 which a really intelligent man may be induced to 
 go against his better judgment, while trying to throw 
 disfredit up<,n a system of Medicine to which he is 
 upposed. 
 
 f The medical witnesses h,ive apparently no ether 
 Idea of galvani.sm thiin stimulation. It is very well 
 known to the public that it*is the spcidiest remedy 
 lor Neuralgia ; is it hy stimulation that it cures? 
 
 t This utter nonsense is copied vorbatim from the 
 orocial report ot the evidence. 
 
 5 When Dr. C.\mpl)eirs treatment wa,« to be reprt- 
 senl<?d to the jury as "improper" Mary Boyd was 
 alliiwod to be, what she was in truth, a "virgin girl." 
 When it was wished to give a colour to other charges. 
 then the po,)r girl'.s purity of <'onduct was basely 
 aalled in lucstion. 
 
 She was very wesk, bat T heard her ■tistinctly 
 say that Posie (Dr. Campbell'? son) was the cause 
 of her illness." Sb>3 said she believed ?h'- wa* in. 
 the family way to him for ^ix w«ek3 r that on the 
 14th of March* the Dr. ''CampbeU) and his son 
 took her into a room and gave her mediuno tbtit 
 burnt her inside .She siid that Posie sinned and 
 sho .«innod. .She loved hiro i>omuch. .Sh*? ?<iid he 
 Would hdve niarriyd her but the mother would not 
 iot him. I oaw her frequently from the time of 
 he! admission until ?hfl died. I was with her 
 the last night of her lifo, and ui :il she died. My 
 impression was that she was giving rue a true 
 rtatemoni of her case. She uovor spoke of Mr. 
 Csughey's ])roachiDg to me. When Dr. Workm.in 
 spoke to her consolingly on religion.- subjects she 
 iippei-red to bo perfectly sensible and to take what 
 he said kindly. 
 
 T think that the last night she wac more com- 
 posed then when she fir^t came in. I was present 
 when Dr, Campbell was with her. When he left 
 she said, " For God's sake, do not let bim neat' 
 mo again," She never liked Dr. Campbell'is prc- 
 senco. but always preferred Dr. J. Workman. 
 
 \<\ 
 
 tior 
 
 JaNII X McCOSNArtTTY. 
 
 tusrk 
 
 liWC-Ti before lue, this 
 siftn day of May, 18(58. 
 
 Wm. HaI.I.OWFLL, Coroner. 
 
 Alicr Ci.arkr— I have been three years in the 
 capacity of nurse in this institution. I first saw 
 deceased, Mary Boyd, at 9 on the evening of 
 the 2yth She was very weak. I attended to 
 her during the night with Jane McConnachty. 
 .■^he was quieter than on the succeeding nights. 
 
 She said thai Dr. Campbell's son went to where 
 'he ^lepi, and when she woke sho found hiro there. 
 In a while after she did not feel well, and she 
 wanted hiui to marry her. He seemed not to pay 
 any attention to her, and she told his father.' 
 The father paid do attention, and then they took 
 her into a room and gave her medicine that burnt 
 the inside outof het.f When she made these state- 
 ments she appeared to be sensible, and said one or 
 two nights before her death that she was not 
 insane until " this was done to her." She never 
 spoke of Mr. Caughey during the time that I was 
 nursing her. She appeared to be sensible up to a 
 short time of her death. She appeared to he 
 raving at times but sensible at others. 
 
 Sd., Alick Clark 
 .Sworn before me, this 
 sixth day of May, 1868. 
 
 Sd., Wm, HaLLOWKLL, f'oronfr. 
 
 -Mary Kllh.v Hankks — I have been in this 
 institution and the I'niversity branch about ^i 
 years. I lirst saw deceased, Mary Boyd, on Wed- 
 nesday evening at 6;.30 p.m. She was very weak, 
 leaning on the arm of Dr. Campbell and the night 
 nurse. I helped to put her in bed. I rat up with 
 her the succeeding night, Thursday. She did n(>t 
 
 * This is erroneously printed 4th March in the 
 repi-'rt of the Ttl'^umj.ih. 
 
 t This is referred to afterwards in the ''Dialogne." 
 
KVIDENCE TAKEN' AT THK r.VQlEST. 
 
 ravo much liuriiig thai night. I ^at all lav on 
 Siiniluy aaii all that flight. She [iraytd and 
 Siiirl that Satan hail tfiuijitotl her t'j conituit the 
 Hit from whi':h .-hp wa-i suffering. 
 
 iSd., Mabv IIan.ve«. 
 .Swoin bufore lue, this 
 ."ixlh day of May, 1;^(58. 
 
 Sd., W H vi.LowRi.i., Jl.p., 
 
 AIaRY Ann Corl.ti. - I have bc&n aSuut ?^ 
 yeaiP riur.se in tins .\sylum. I firrit ."aw de- 
 foaMjd on Thursday nveuiiig, the ^Oth ult. I 
 attended to her al! Fiiday imtil 6:j0 ((.m. Ail 
 that she statud tu mu was that Ur. <JaU')>beIl had 
 givcii b«r iiaodicMm', an'i that fhi< had iii'vur t>fon 
 well sinco. She .^uid that going ti. hear Mi 
 Caujjhoy »a* '..ot the cause uf hei iriuihlo."' I 
 wtuld not jdaoy imjiiiei; .lepoiideticc on .iiiythiug 
 she f-aid r< -ipecting her illnojs. 
 
 !Sd.. M\RV Ann CohHtrr. 
 Sworn before uie, thip' 
 yixth day of May, 1868. 
 
 f^tl.. \V 11m muvfii.. M.D . 
 
 Mary A\n tiAi,BH.\[TH. — I_have been 3 years 
 and •< iiionthi^ in thi? institution. CorroboratHg 
 brmer wimes.', and paid i-h« aMnbuted ail hfr 
 t\ able to Dr. CarapbeU> iion. .md ni. one olce : 
 that •' she had been ruuu d iuno' cntly by hint, and 
 
 * Tho Trleijrixph report erroncDiisly prints thi« ; 
 "Phe .said that .•^ho viAf .'•viiy Mi Ciiughey wa- 
 not the cii]>e of her trouble." 
 
 (Jodkncwit. ' When .'he made this iitatemenr I 
 wn« ."atistiod 'he wa? :ay ',iig what was corioc!. and 
 that hur mind wa> clear at the time. I t.i?vor 
 hciard her say atiything "f Mr. Caughey or his 
 preaching. 
 
 .Sd., Mary .\. (i.^LBUAiTH. 
 Sworn before me. this 
 .-ixth day of May. 18«8. 
 
 Sd.; \V HM.i.ouK„t,. M.D.. 
 
 SaHaii Ki.i.iOTi — I h.ivo been 3J years in this 
 e.otablishment I it,-ri*'ted deceased, Mary Boyd, 
 •jp stair.? with Dr. Caiup>iell. In an.swer t«i luy 
 .luosi.i(-ii, whether i)i. Cair ; bells family had oeci) 
 kind 'o her. .-"ho -"aid " it w<i.> faiiie. ' She wanted 
 to teo Dr. Campbell'," sou, thai she loved lum aii'l 
 would die for biin. She appeared tolerably .-en- 
 «ible whan I i^aw her 
 
 Sd., Saeau J, ti.i.Mrr. 
 Sworn befo;i> me, this 
 
 ."ixth d<«y of May, 18«8. 
 
 Sd., W ilAi.i.owKLL, M.D., 
 
 Covowr. 
 Mai:y A.nn I'AitKti. — lam iiKilrcin cf the P. L. 
 '..'Vl-im. and liave )«een fer 14 years. 1 met Dr. 
 Canjpbcli at the bottom of the fi;tirs on the 29th 
 ult, when decea.?ed wii.* admitted. The re.st >f 
 the evidence if mereiy corroborative cf former 
 witnefses. 
 
 Sd., M A. I'.utKcs. 
 Sworn before me, this 
 jijcth day of May, 1868. 
 
 Sd.. AV. (Iali.(.«ki.i., M.D., 
 
 Duminion of Canada, | An irnjuifitioa indent- 
 Province of (.Ontario, : ed talten for lUir St'V - 
 City of Toronto. [ breijjn Lady the i^uocn, 
 Tu Wit: j at the I'rovinciril Luna- 
 tic Ajiyluin, eitnatn in tiufcn Street, Toronto, 
 
 County of Yo'k, on the Ijflh and .-^ixth days of 
 May, in the thirty-tiisf year of rjie reign of Our 
 Sovereign Lady the Qiiren, b>'lore William Hal 
 b.well. M.r>.,oneof the ComnnV <! our p.iid Lady 
 the Queeu, for the said City, on view of the body 
 cf Mary Hoyd, then and ther* lying deaJ upon the 
 oaths of .)<.hn Howe, (Foreman) George Mender 
 Son, William Wright. Robert I'ctor. Charles Main- 
 pricp, Duncan MrFee, Luku Ho?>i>5k, J> hu Kiivhei;, 
 William Stlbb?, W. Wood.s.Iohii Matthew, Hobei • 
 PmitU, Thoma? Waldic, good and lawful men of 
 the said (-ity, duly chosen, and who beinjj then 
 and there duly i<worn and charged to enijiiire (i>r 
 our rtuid Lady th« Queen, when, how, and hy what 
 luoaoa said Mary Boyd camo to her death, d" upoo 
 their oathii say, tha' "uid Mary Boyd caiue to hcv 
 death by the infliction of a certain wound acro».« 
 her throai With her own hand, uy uieau.5 of a 
 earving knife. Verdict f'll" U"-, while laboring 
 under (• mfiorfirif iii>ortify. In witness whereof, aj" 
 well the said Coroner, as the .lurors aforesaid 
 hereunto "ubscribod their hands and seal.* on the 
 day and year last above written. 
 
 Signed. WiUifHi, Flall.-.well, M.D., f^'^roiur. [LS ] 
 
 " John Howe, {■•>,■' inni, 
 
 " Creorge Henderpon. " 
 
 Wiliiniu Wright. " 
 
 Roban Peter, " 
 
 " (.'harks Mainprico, " 
 
 " Dunear, McPhtP, " 
 
 Luke U-tack, " 
 
 ,1ohn Kitson, " 
 William ,r. Stibbs, 
 
 William Woods, " 
 
 .John Matthew, " 
 
 " Kobert Smith, " 
 
 Thomas Waldie. " 
 
 Thi; jury umpannelleil in the ca.'o of Mary Boyd 
 cannot part witliout recording their ,sen.-e of tho 
 highly improper medical treatmeDt pursued l.y 
 Dr. Campbell toward.^ the sa\d deoe.tsed Mary 
 Boyd. This actiun up<in their part is baeed 'pon 
 the evidence of high medical authority, adduce J 
 in iho cour.se of a long and paiuful investigation 
 .f a very melancholy case of suicide before Coroner 
 
 Ualluwetl. 
 
 Signed, .loHS Howr. Foreman, 
 
 tin behalf of the jury. 
 
 Provincial Luuutic Atyluni, 
 
 Toronto, tJth May, iiia. 
 
AKTICLE FEOM 'TELElJKAPH." 
 
 It ha>< beoa found iiect'ssary to repiiut 
 tho toUowiiig ediWrial aitick' froDi th«; 
 Telegraph, to iiiakf iiittllii^ililti what 
 Will be t'ouini hereafter — 
 
 MARV BOVI). 
 
 Tlie facts in tnis lametitahh. ''asf" liii\ e 
 alx-wlv l.eeu made pulilit tlirougli tht:si' 
 columuB 'I'ln; girl, Mary Boyd, vvheij a serviint 
 witli L»r. <,'aTiipbell. l"<:i;uiif ir.Kaiit-, lud while 
 in that '.ouditJonCit her throat, with h kriite. 
 Sho wa» removed to the Lunatic Asylum, 
 where she died from tlie effects of the woiDid, 
 Sht- was admitted as a parieut hitfteriiig troiij 
 religions insanity IJut it is not all certain, 
 tioin the evideuec giv(;n dii the inquest, that 
 relnjioiis exritemenl nas the cause of lif r ahei - 
 ration* i.)r. W'oikinai. f'.und her feHrfully dis- 
 tuit)ed under the cotivh'tion thtit (sh-. was going 
 ti> the tlaiuei: of trell To the uurHcs. who 
 w«re ooiiutajitly with her — for they licver left 
 hei for a inumenl — she said less of luligioiiand 
 mi;ie I'f the sin of forhidden love, in wliii h shf; 
 constantly repeated she had indnlg>'d with a 
 ton of J>r Campbell Of the n\iist;s, the nm- 
 joiity put faith in her story , hut l>r. ■\Vork.- 
 Dian'h experieiue tea<hi's hirti''ihat no impov- 
 fHn<o can he attached to tlio unsupported 
 fctateuients of the iiisaue. We ate naturally 
 led to Kijk whethei these statenitints ot hers 
 received any corrohoiatiou from aseertniriet! 
 facts or cncutnstances, Dr, f.'ampholl admit- 
 ted to Dr WorkniHU that, at the ( oniinen.-e- 
 ment of the diflieult) siie alleged an illicit 
 connection with his sou,t The statenn ut lie 
 those to construe into a symptom of insanity. 
 It might have been so ; hut this assumption 
 certainly does not resolve thi; difhciilty which 
 arises out of such a statement. There was 
 one fact which might have hem a corroboration 
 of her .statement. We do not Ray that it was, 
 hut that it may have been and il cannot bo 
 questionable that this possibility ought not to 
 have been ignored The ast:<!itain*d derange- 
 ment of hei female cnnditioii might have been 
 a consequence of what she stated to I'l < 'amp- 
 bell legardintr his son , and wi? tliink tiie doc- 
 tor was boua<t to have regard to this possibili- 
 ty. If 8U( h a (lause of the iritigularity were 
 possible — and this cannot "ne denied \ he was 
 tiot justified in tieadng it as entitled t<) no sort 
 of coiisideiatioii. 
 
 It is in this view of the matter tiiat the ver- 
 di(t of the corner's jury becomes intelligible, 
 
 • If wa.i never atato<l h.v Dr. < aiapbell that reli 
 (jiciii wa,-.iht* '•Hut' of her iasanity, 
 
 t This i- iueorrBct. Shy stated thai she had been 
 violated, ►lut never that she had carried on any "illicit 
 iutercouTfe." 
 
 I The whole of tbi:^ article ii« baced i,n an aggumn 
 tion by the writer, which i« hereafter sifaowu to be 
 iueorrecl, that a suppression uf the menses eiiited- 
 
 They give it as their f>piniou that the medical 
 treatment of the girl wiu< highly improjier. 
 That conclusion was founded upon highly re- 
 S[)ectable mu<iical eviilence, l)r Rerryman 
 gave It as his opinion that th-- application ot 
 galvanic electricity was entirely ■ contrary to 
 decency and ])ro|iriety. * Might it not, let us 
 ask, be everi ( riminal ' If the irregularity 
 had arisen from a c.u.sp which there was no 
 warrant foi ■issuniiug to be in^iuobablcj audit 
 It hafl been removed by thie means the charac- 
 ter of the treatiiient cotild not be qnalitied, 
 even by the comparativtdy mild terms used by 
 Di . I'erryman There is evidently soniething 
 more than aiiiiostion of deceno atnl propriety 
 and their opposiles. 
 
 On one point, I'lr. Campbell's f-videnee is 
 very remarkable He used iemcdi<s to remove 
 irregularity, and there was ,in improvement in 
 this particulai of the .girls condition ; but he 
 could not say whether that improvement was 
 a conbeijiuim e of those remedie;-, or whether it 
 preceded or followed their Hdnlinistrati^>n t 
 Thi.s is a veiy strange admission. 'Thin con- 
 fusion of times and alleged want of ol>servation 
 of the results ot .ipplied lemedies — so called — 
 woulii argue, if n<,>thing else, a negligenie 
 wl)ich borders on culpable But it is difti< ult 
 to believe tiiis is the true exi)lanation Dr. 
 Campbell must have felt that the etticacy of 
 his remedies, in this particular, might have 
 been the worst thing that could happen. 
 We are assuming nothing to his prejudice ; 
 but it is v'ly certain that if the girl's statement 
 regait'iug herself and his son could have awa- 
 kened 'n his mind the least suspiiion of its pos- 
 sibl'j coir-ectnessj: he wouhi have hrui aniotive 
 to pursue the treatment which the medical 
 wiltiesses and the jury have m> pointedly ctiu- 
 demned. He ought, under circumstances of 
 such great delicacy in every respect, to have 
 abstained from doing what might beai the ap- 
 pearance of a possible wrontr In this re8[)<!ct 
 he altogether tailed, and he must not o.mplain 
 if, uiider the i iicumstaiices, the public be found 
 endorsing the n iisiire of the coroner s jury. 
 
 • Dr. Berr>-nian kindly .suggested blecdingfrom th« 
 
 arm af a better reroedv for dy.^nienurrlKva! 
 
 t It will be rhown not only ti^at it wa.' improbable, 
 hut impossible. 
 
 ; The editor muft have very oareloa.^ly read the evi- 
 dence eveu aa publisUud in his own mi per, or lie would 
 have 5eouthut it is reportod thut Dr. t'ampbell .said 
 ■' I u.«ed Some remedies with a view of inipro»ioghor 
 female condition, n/u-r which she was l>efter:'' 
 th.' exact words which Dr. Canipbell added atthe In 
 Quest were " 1 cannot say whether on aocnunt of 
 these remediei, or Merely <ifin- them ; /'oat hoc not 
 beinuT invariably tyropt^r Kor." Nor shmild any 
 meilical man ever venture to speak uu>ri' confidently 
 of the re.'ult of hi." remedies, 
 
 I' It did not aw:iken in Dr. tJampbell's mind the 
 slightest suspicion. The reason of this will bo seen 
 hereafter 
 
M A H Y 1 \ () Y J ) . 
 
 Facts Respecting her Death and the Inquest held at the Lunatic 
 
 Asylum Toronto. 
 
 MaRV Boyd, whose melancholy end 
 forms the subject ol' the following brief 
 narrative, was born in Lower Canada of 
 Irish p ircnt«i, who removed to Upper 
 Canada about throe years ago, and now 
 reside in the Township of Eldon, County 
 of Victoiia. She went to live in Br. Camp- 
 bell » fuuiily, 108 Bay street, Toronto, on 
 the 1st January last. 
 
 She was nineteen years of age. rather 
 tall, of engaging appearance, intelligent, and 
 well educated for her position in life, modest 
 and retiring in manner, well behaved, 'luiet. 
 mild and gentle in disposition — attentive to 
 her household duties. She was a member 
 of the Presbyterian (,'hureh, which, as well 
 as the Sunday School, *he attended regu- 
 larly. She seemed to bo of a religious turn 
 of mind. It may be added that she was 
 much liked by the family 
 
 Her health was uniformly good, except at 
 certain periotls. 
 
 About the middle of April a change was 
 noticed in her demeanour. She became 
 restless and unsettled — .spoke strangely 
 about religious subjects, dwelling with great 
 pertinacity upon something she imagined 
 that the Rev. Mr. Caughey had said to 
 her, or which, at all events, she specially ap- 
 plied to herself, as to repentance — hell-fire 
 — the burning of the world, .tc. 
 
 Not long after this, she one morning 
 startled Mrs. Campbell with a very strange 
 
 and mo.st improbable declaration, the parti 
 cuiars of which will appear in Dr. Carap- 
 bell's letter to the Toronto i)fM;7y Telegraph 
 of the K'lth instant, which is given hereafter. 
 
 Her mind continued to become more and 
 more unsettled from day to day, and she 
 began to speak so much about its being 
 'better to be dead than to be alive," that 
 fears being entertained that she might make 
 away with herself. Dr. Campbell, on the 
 morning of 27th April, aft»r consultatioD 
 with his medieal friends, determined to send 
 her to the Lunatic ,\sylum, and applied the 
 same day for the papers necessary to obtain 
 her admission into it as a patient. 
 
 On that same afternoon, about 4 o'clock 
 she made an attempt at suicide, by 
 trying to drown herself in the well, which, 
 though nearly forty feet deep, was for- 
 tunately full up to the brim, and this saved 
 the girl's lift for the time, as her clothes 
 prevented her from sinking. She was dis- 
 covered by the noise and the splashing she 
 was making, and rescued by the servant 
 boy, who happened to be in an adjoining 
 room. When asked why she had done 
 this, she said she was convinced that the 
 world was about to be burnt up, and that 
 drowning was an easier death than burning! 
 
 Her father, Tliomas Boyd, of the town- 
 ship of Eldon, county Victoria, was at once 
 sent for, but did not arrive in Toronto until 
 late on Saturday evening, 2nd May , he 
 
2 
 
 went up to tlic Ariyluni on Sunday uiorn- 
 inj^, bat ho never was ulluwcJ tn see l)b 
 
 daui^htcr until after hor ith ! 
 
 It took nearly the whole of Tuesday, 
 2!»tli, to prepiii-c the oertificat<. s rc((uired. 
 j;lie was pretty ({uiot durinp; thiit day, and 
 ay she felt porfootly well in budy. she wa^s 
 allowed to go on with her household wurk 
 as usual, with a view to divest her mind 
 from tlie vexing thoufxhts that harassed hor. 
 
 }Sho WM.- coustaiitiy watohed b\ -onie 
 member of tiie tauiiiy, and was made to 
 sleep that nij^ht, as she had been the nij^ht 
 before, in the same rooni witii one of Dr. 
 Campbell's daughters. 
 
 During the night of Monday she became 
 "reatly excited. <iot out of bed and broke 
 a large mirror into pioees 
 
 On ^Vedncsday, '50th April, she spent a 
 trreat part of the forenoon in bed iti bei 
 own room. About 5 o'eloek in the after- 
 noon, Dr. Campbell sent Mrs. Campbell to 
 tell her to get ready to go to the Asylum. 
 It had been distinctly told her where she 
 wa.s going, and she readily assented to it, as 
 she said she was .sorry that she was giving 
 Dr. Canipbclls family .so much treuble, and 
 would gladly go any where that was thought 
 best for her. When Mrs. Campbell went 
 to Mary's room, .she was horror-stricken by 
 seeing her sitting on a trunk, nearly un- 
 dres.sed, sawing at her throat with an old 
 blunt table-knife without a handle ! This 
 knife was at onee wrested from her hand, 
 but she rushed past Mrs. Campbell into the 
 kitchen, which adjoined l.er room, and 
 snatching up another very sharp table-knife, 
 she cut her tiiroat eompletely across, 
 .severing the wiinipipe between the thyroid 
 and cricoid cartilages,. Dr. Campbell, who 
 fortunately happened te be in the house, 
 hearing screams, ran down at once, and 
 found that she had staggered back into hor 
 room, on the flour of which .she writlicd 
 
 about in great agony, the blood from the 
 wound trickling down the windpijie and 
 marly choking !'er, .she .shoved more( .or 
 great mental excitement at the time, ob- 
 stinately resisting all attempts to assLst her, 
 and trying to tear the wimiid open with licr 
 lingers ! 
 
 Dr. Lizars, whose office was near at hand, 
 was sent for, he eause at once, and with 
 Dr. Campbell, dressed the wound. None of 
 the important bloodvessels of the neck being 
 injured, it was confidently hoped that she 
 would recover, as far at least as the wound 
 was coueerncd. She was romovud in u cab 
 to the Asylum, a little over two miles, Dr. 
 Campbell and his son accompanying her, and 
 supporting her during the passage. 
 
 She was perfectly quiet, both on the way 
 and on her arrival at the Asylum— maui- 
 testcfl no reluetiine to going to the bed that 
 bad been prepared for her, and submitted 
 readily to the application of a leather appara- 
 tus to keep her hands confined, and prevent 
 
 hor tearing the stitches from the wound in 
 her throat. Two nur.-^es were placed at her 
 bcd.side to w.atch he; . 
 
 On the morning of the second day ( Friday, 
 1st May) the larynx, or that portion of the 
 throat immediately above the wound, had 
 swollen so much that she could scarcely 
 breathe, and her faee became livid from im- 
 perfect oxygenation of the blood. The remo- 
 val of some of the stitches en.abled hor to 
 breathe more freely, but she was never after- 
 wards able to speak without the attendant 
 first closing the aperture thus made, and as 
 her hinds were coni.ned, she could not do 
 this i'or herself. 
 
 Inflammation of the membrane lining the 
 windpipe, and of the right lung then set in 
 — the wound in the throat did badly, showing 
 no signs \vhat''ver of healing — very offensive 
 matter was discharged from it — she sank 
 
rapidly, and died about 3 o'clock on tlit 
 morning of TucbJay, the 5tli May. 
 
 An inquest was hold at the Asylum on the 
 evening of 5th May, by Coroner Hallowell, 
 and continued all the next day. A fxist 
 mortem examination of the body wa.'^ made 
 in the forenoon of (kh inst., by Drs. llioh- 
 ardson and Berrynian. Dr. Campbell was 
 present, but took no part beyond a close 
 inspection of what was laid bare by the 
 incisions. Hi.s letter given below, will 
 shew the result of the examination. 
 
 Several witnesses, such as Dr. Lizars, 
 Dr. Adama, and Dr. Campbell's servant 
 boy, who could have thrown some light 
 upon the cause of the girl's death — the only 
 matter into which the jury were met to 
 inquire — were not culled, but in their stead 
 a number of the nurses were examined 
 after all the medical witnesses had left 
 thu Asylum ! 
 
 The verdict of the jury was — '• That 
 the said Mary Boyd came to her death 
 by the infliction of a certain wound across 
 her throat, with her own hand, by means 
 of a carving knife ; verdict /elo de se, 
 while laboring under temporary insanity." 
 
 After rendering their verdict the foreman, 
 handed a document, of which the following 
 is a copy, to the coroner ; — " The jury era- 
 panelled in the ca.se of Mary Boyd cannot 
 part without recording their sense of the 
 highly improper medical treatment pursued 
 by Dr. Campbell towards the said deceased 
 Mary Boyd. This action upon their part 
 is based upon the evidence of high medical 
 authority adduced in the course of a long 
 and painful investigation of a very melan- 
 choly case of suicide before Coroner Hal- 
 lowell. (Signed, > John Howe, foreman, on 
 behalf of the jury. Provincial Lunatic 
 Asylum, Toronto, May 6, 180H." — Leader 
 May 7. 
 
 Th'' opinions of tht Toronto Press on fke 
 verdict c/ (he Juri/ will be gathered 
 from the joUotcing editorial irhich 
 'Impaired in th, Globe of dth May : — 
 
 " Very absurd and silly was the conduct 
 of the Coroner's jury on the c;ise of the 
 young woman who died in the Lunatic 
 Asylum from wounds inflicted on her throat 
 by herself, in eondemnin'^, at the instiga- 
 tion of two bitterly prejudiced old school 
 doctors, the treatment of the young woman's 
 casi;, by .so able and experienced a physician 
 as Dr. Campbell. The use of the galvanic 
 battery had nothing to do with ihc girl's 
 death, which wa.>* the solo matter for the 
 jury to defil with, and the idea of a Coroner's 
 jury, picked in haste oil' the commons, at- 
 tempting to decide between contending Doc- 
 tors is perfectly absurd. What could they 
 know of the use of the galvanic battery, and 
 who but a born foo! would pronounce an 
 opinion on ijue medical man, on the faith of 
 statements made by otheis of a rival school ? 
 Dr. Campbell used ail his skill on behalf of 
 the poor girl, and the criticism of his treat- 
 ment was simply the result of spiteful feel- 
 ing." — Globe, May 9. 
 
 " The Coroner's jury which enquired into 
 the cause of the death of Mary Boyd, a 
 former servant of Dr. Campbell's, went out 
 of their way to declare that the Doctor's 
 treatment of the girl was " highly improper." 
 We hardly know whom to blame most, the 
 medical men who put their heads together 
 to endeavor to injure a successful rival, or 
 the members of the jury who, in the pro- 
 fundity of their wisdom and knowledge, had 
 the impertinence to pass censure up<.>n Dr. 
 Campbell's treatment. It is not very much 
 to the credit of the " high medical " gentle- 
 men who primed the jury that, because Dr. 
 Campbell happens to be a practitioner of a 
 diSerent school from themselves, they should 
 by such potty artifices seek to injure him in 
 the eyes of the public. There is probably 
 more excuse for the jury, and we think 
 that, under the circumstances, the coroner 
 would not have l)een overstepping the 
 bounds of duty had he reminded the mem- 
 
bers of that august body that it was no part 
 of tlicir business to puss judgment upon 
 medical treatment regarding wliich they 
 were tbeoiselvcs cotirely ignorant. We 
 publish today a letter from Dr. Adams 
 which fully justifies Dr. Cauipbcli's treat- 
 ment." — Leador, May 8. 
 
 Db. ADAMii' LLTTEK. 
 
 To lite Eilttor of the l.mtdcr. 
 
 Sib, — I see that the Coroner's jury at 
 the inquest held yesterday, at the Asylum, 
 on Mary Boyd, in addition to their verdict 
 have stated, on what they are pleased to 
 term " high medical authority," that Dr. 
 Campbell's medical treatment of the de- 
 ceased was " highly improper." I feel 
 bound to state, that I was culled on by Dr. 
 Campbell to aid him in the treatment of 
 this unfortunate young woman ; that I have 
 full knowledge of all the remedial measures 
 that were used, and that Dr. Campbcirs 
 treatment of this patient was, in my opinion, 
 perfectly judicious, and that the manner in 
 which he employed galvanism in this case, 
 is recommended and used by far higher 
 medical authorities than those who have 
 presumed to censure it, and those too not 
 belonging to our School of Medicine but to 
 their own. 
 
 J. ADAMS, M. D. 
 
 64 Bay Street, 
 Toronto, May 8, 1868. 
 
 FIBST LETTER OF DE- CAMPBELL TO 
 "DAILY TELEGEAPH." 
 
 (^Editor Daily Telegraph.) 
 
 Sib, — Enoagh, and most people will 
 probably think, far more than enough, has 
 already been given to the public ou this pain- 
 ful and delicate topic. I have hitherto refrain- 
 ed fh>m iQterfering,not thin king myself called 
 upon at this late period of my career, to de- 
 fend my professional reputation from the cri- 
 ticism of a coroner's jury. 
 
 In the portion of the ovidcnco given at 
 l!'<! iiKjUi'st whieii was held on the body of 
 Mary Boyd at the Jjunatio Asylum on 5th 
 and Gth ijist., whioli you published in your 
 paper on Saturday tiic 9th, :liere is a ctiargo 
 recorded against my son, a yOung luau now 
 preparing himsell lor the medical profes- 
 sion, which, if it could bo believed, might 
 interfere with hi.- success in life. These 
 charges I know to be untrue : the medical 
 men who testified at the inquest knew 
 them to be untrue; the jury knew them 
 to be untrac ; the coroner when he wrote 
 them down and handed theci to you 
 to publish, knew them to be untrue! 
 And your article of yesterday now makes a 
 farther and most calumnious charge against 
 myself, of having used impt-opttr means to 
 bring on menstruation in a ease of Auienor- 
 rhoea, where you say there wits a possibility 
 of pregnancy existing. 
 
 Dr. Workman stated in his evidence, that 
 when applying for the admission of tliis 
 patient into the Asylum, and before she had 
 wounded herself, and when she was likely 
 to be an inmate of that institution for 
 a considerable time, ' Dr. Campbell in- 
 " formed him that she had been sutfcring 
 '' from suppresnion of the menses, and 
 " that he, (Dr. Campbell,) considered it 
 " of great importance to restore the func- 
 " tion." At the time whcu Dr. Workman 
 gave this evidence, nothing had come iip,nor 
 did I ever imagine that anything could likely 
 have come up, to render it necessary for me 
 to point out to the coroner that Dr. Work- 
 had slightly misunderstood me ; Miut what I 
 really did say to him was : " she suffers from 
 " menstrual difficult ij, and I wish to call your 
 "attention particularly to the next menstrual 
 " period, as it will most likely be attended by 
 "an aggravation of her mental troubles." 
 At the same time 1 suggested to him the 
 use of galvanism iu a certain manner which 
 I described to him, as a means of lacilitating 
 the menstruation, and told him that I 
 thought it had done so at the period she 
 was just getting over. 
 
 The pointing out to the jury the 
 difference between Amenorrhrta, (which 
 means suppression of the menstrual dis- 
 charge) and Dysmenorrhea, (painful or 
 
5 
 
 difficult mcuatruation,) ^eciuod U> l>o totally 
 irrelevant to the mutter, when I ;.^•^vc my 
 evidence, bat it. hijw turn> out to have 
 l.'ien ;i!l impoitatit. I conooived that 
 the jury were tliere to enquire into the e.iuso 
 ot"thodnatli of tho deceiiaid. and iiothi;]}! 
 
 :e> 
 
 else , and that thoy had nu bu^inesis what 
 ever svith flie details uf htr feuiale aii 
 mcnta. 
 
 Whatever " confusion of timt> ' there 
 may have been in your mind, there wu-^ 
 none in tninc, as to whether the gulv.uiisni, 
 the use of whioh has b-.en so much called in 
 question, had been esujiloycu hv/'nc or iift( ,• 
 the lu.st periodical diselsarge appeared. I 
 distinctly stated at the ia((ue.*t that it was 
 used after it had ouco appeared, but had 
 beeaijie a^ijain interrupted . all your insiuua 
 tions as to any inteut on my part to use it 
 iaaproperly, consequently fall to the ground. 
 
 It seems to surprise you that I should 
 rofu.'^c to swour that the discharge which 
 followed t!io f^alvanism was necessarily the 
 result of that remedial agent. It would 
 be well for medical men if they were 
 alwa3-8 equally 'autious ia attributing the 
 recovery of their patients to the remedies 
 which they may happen to have used 
 previous to that recovery. In this case 
 all that I can say is, that the application of 
 galvanism <cas folluvcd by a moderation of 
 the symptoms of Erotonjauia, but by an ap- 
 pa.'ent increase ()f the muuifesiutious ol 
 Ktiigious excitement. But what would 
 be said if I attributed this aggravation of 
 the religious excitement to rhe galvanism ? 
 What I told the coroner wa-, that it by no 
 Dieans foliov*ed that becuuse an improve- 
 ment, or an aggravation of the disease 
 was ^'jMjst hoc," that it was necessarily 
 *^ proplur /wc." Does this imply any such 
 " negligence as borders on the culpable," 
 as you charge me with, because I expressed 
 this most reasonable doubt ? 
 
 It is well known that there was a pout 
 mortem examination of the body, at winch I 
 was present, and at which both Dr. Lizars, 
 who had given me the ueaefit of his well- 
 known surgical skill in dressing the wouu<l- 
 ed throat ; and Dr. Adams who had through- 
 out consulted with me ou the ruedical treat- 
 ment of the case, and who knew all tliut the 
 
 patient had fancied about herself, should 
 also have boon noiiQcd to be present. 
 
 The in^pecti in of the womb . 'it the p^^st 
 nontfiii exuniiia;;:>:i eouqiiet.'ly disproved 
 the delusion v/iiicli had taken p^)S.scs.5ion of 
 the poor girl's iraz'jd mind ;.h to her preg- 
 nancy. xVH t.!i>? geiierativo oi'^anr, from 
 the ivvarii"^ d'lvnnvard.H, weie in a very re- 
 m.akable ^tuto of v.i.scular exeitcuient and 
 congestion — *ue ovari>.'S especially. Tiic 
 womb contaiued only the Dlasf.ic shreds of 
 lymf/h or libriiie. common in l>ysmeDor- 
 rli<ej , but no", the sllghl''.il indicirlon 
 'hat pr''<v'ini-ij I f.iMe<l either at fh'- time 
 (7 h'f '■■ i.i.U. '.r ihnt it ' i''i- hiiil erist- 
 cd 'If nvrj for ,ie.r }>criod ' The mein- 
 braue ab)ve ad.ided to, shjwed clearly 
 that a J)ysmeii:rrhiBal condition must 
 have existed at hor last period, and it fol- 
 lowed of course that tlio idea of preg- 
 liuuey having exist id at iai.> same tiuje was 
 ab.surd. These points were all distinctly 
 sworn to by the mtdieai \vitne>3<.s ! It is 
 painful to me to have to obtrude =ueh 
 m.Uteis on tha public. I know thut the 
 pages of a medical journal would be the 
 proper place to discuss the pathological 
 phenomenu of suc'i a peculiar ease, but 
 such journals have a very limited circu- 
 lation, and you hiivt left mo no alternative 
 but to speak out plainly to tiu' general 
 public iu (he same paper wiiere I was 
 attacked, and wheie the matter was first 
 made kuowo to them. 
 
 Erotomania, of which this was a well 
 marked instance, is a condition diflFering iu 
 a great many res['ect.s from Nymphomania, 
 with which it h:is sometimes been conibund- 
 ed, it iscompatibl,', as this sad case showed, 
 with pert'ect modesty of demeanor and pro- 
 priety of conduct, on the other baud, it 
 gives rise to the strangest hallucinations, 
 the unfortunate bufferers will give the tuost 
 minute and ciicuuistantial details of scenes 
 showu by subsequent investigation to have 
 been wholly imagmary ! 
 
 Mary Boyd never stated to me, nor to my 
 wife, nor, i am quite sure, to a;iy one else, 
 that she had had, as you allege, dlicit inter- 
 course with my son. I am as positive as it 
 is possible for me to be on a point, which no 
 medical jurist will undertake in certain 
 
cun'lition:i absoluU')' tu diUfiJo , that she 
 !ievi:r had had any such, cither willi my son 
 or with any other ni;m, but that slu diud 
 as sht! I):kI iivfd, a spotl.-ss vir;;in ! What 
 .she told iiiy wilo was: nut tliut bhv; hud 
 canied on illirit t:'>imiu>i>m with my .son, 
 hut that she had boon vlnJunl by him, 
 a inoiith previous to the tiiUL; at which 
 slie told the stfii) ' Wlieu a.-ked at 
 what hour of the day it had occurred, 
 .she said that it w-u- at nijiht during 
 her sleep, — that .she liail tiut seen hira, but 
 felt convinced on awakin;; that h<; iiiu.st 
 have been there, iVoiii the condition in which 
 she found her.sell! She said, moreover, 
 thut altluiUL'ih he hid uever been with her 
 but that time, she was sure that she was 
 pregnant by liim ! as she felt that her 
 monthly il!ne.«.s was trying to come on, but 
 did not come on '' as it should do." It was at 
 this time that she (irst toid my wife that 
 she love 1 my sou very uiuch I In an hour 
 or two after thi.-, ahe cuue ro luy wife and 
 said tliat she "was all right," that the ex- 
 pected discharge had appeared, aud that 
 she was conviui^'cd that she must have been 
 mistaken about my son having ever been 
 uear her , aud a subsequent examination of 
 her person convinced me of the impossibility 
 of her story beinj^; true. 
 
 For some days previous to all this, she 
 had been lalkiag very strangely about the 
 end of the world being immediately about 
 to happen ; about the Key. Mr Caughey, 
 the Revivalist, whose church slio attended 
 occasionally in the evenings, having very 
 greatly alarmed her about hell-fire ; thinking 
 that he had iictually addressed himself to 
 her specially as beiug about to be burnt up 
 in it ! 
 
 iShc had two predominating ideas abr.ut 
 which alone she would talk , one was her 
 love for my .son, a lad two years younger 
 than herself, and .-he was only nineteen ; the 
 other was the burning up --f the world. But 
 she never, in my heariiig, nor in that of any 
 member of my I'amiiy, ever joined tiio two 
 subjects together, as cause and effect, which 
 the uurscs of the A.syluni, in reportino; her 
 ravings, have apparently done. Mary Boyd 
 was continually importuning my wile to 
 allow my wm to mairy her. a.s she " conhl 
 
 not liii irithoui hn.i !" lie, J 'im fjuitc 
 certain, both from his own a.ssuranpes, ond 
 from my pejs.^nai ob.sorvation, did not in 
 any way encoura',;e her infatuation, but 
 felt perfectly ludith'ront to her. 
 
 11 »lie eoroner, as he ought to have d(^■le, 
 had takeji the ividence of my servant boy, 
 who rescued deceased from the well, on 
 her first attempt -at suicide, and whom, 
 although brought by mo to the inquest for 
 that purpo.-e, t! c corotior refu.se(l to ex- 
 amine, it would have been seen clearly 
 that, from the situation of the girl's room, 
 it was nest to un impossibility for my son 
 to have had acces.i to it during the night, 
 without this boy's koowledgc, as he slept 
 close to the very door of the room in ques- 
 tion. 
 
 That the deceased was inaat'e, in the 
 fullest sense of the term, is beyond all 
 doubt. That her insanity was continuous, 
 however calm she might have appeared at 
 times, is also beyond all doubt. If the 
 statements of the nurses as to her calmness 
 and iutelligenee were correct, w'lV, in the 
 name of Immauity, was her poor old father, 
 whom I had sent for, and who had come 
 from a great distance to attend upon his 
 dying daughter, never allowed even to see 
 her ? Why did the authorities of the 
 Asylum consider it impassible to relax for 
 one instant the pinioning apparatus by 
 which she was restrained, up to the very 
 moment of her death ? I don't at ail 
 blame the A.syluiu Superintendent for keep- 
 ing on tliis restraint, but could it have 
 been ni^ces-sary, with two powerful nurses 
 constantly at her bedside, had she been 
 as collected as they describe her to have 
 been when she made the statements they 
 allege her to have made ? 
 
 And even if Mary Boyd had been ever 
 so sane, such hearsay reports are not evi- 
 dence, and the coroner had no right what- 
 ever to receive them as such, nor to listen 
 to them at all — far less to publish them. 
 
 1 leave it to the Superintendent of the 
 Asylum to deal as he thinks lit with those 
 nurses, who, as their own admissions .show, 
 instead of carrying out the orders which he 
 gave, or, at all events, ought to have given ; 
 by enforcing sileace.. by which aloue the 
 
iiijurc<J tliroiit cnuld linvo r<oti kept at n st. 
 and allowed to li(!:il. wuniLi! thoii unhappy 
 and helplesM cliarjio with irnportinent ijiies- 
 tions (sc/ Surah Kliioft's 'vidence) to ;^'ra 
 tif'v tlieir prurii-nt ouriosi'y. 
 
 Tho full extent of this fiendish cruelty on 
 their part, will not be nuderstood, until it is 
 explaiiisd, that tor several days preceding her 
 death, it was altogetht-r impossible for the 
 poor suffering girl to utter u word, without 
 her attendants first closing up the aperture 
 in her throat through which she breathed ! 
 and the post iih.rfon showed that though 
 the patient survived the injury nearly a 
 week, not the slightest protcresi; towards 
 repair had taken place in the wound. 
 This word '' wound ' you have erroneously 
 printed " wonib " in the partial report of 
 the evidence given in yonv p:iper of Satur- 
 day, giving a totally diffcn iit meaning to 
 the statement and leading penplo to imagine 
 that the icomlj might possibly have received 
 some injury, from which it had not recov- 
 ered, whereas, the medical evidence showed, 
 that, however, inflamed or congested it 
 Diight be. that it had never received any 
 irjury at any time. 
 
 What, however, are we to think of a 
 coroner like Dr. liailoweli who with 
 all the medical testimony before him, dis- 
 pelling, as it did, the decea.sed's hallucina- 
 tion?' a.s to lur pregnancy (remember that 
 this testimony was not given in the order 
 in which you printed it, but beforr that 
 of the nursios) notes down ns evidence, 
 records officially, and hands to a city paper 
 to publish, the ravings of a poor nnnacled 
 maniac, making s rious charges against one 
 whom he was pleaded to tell his jury he 
 looked upon as his oldist friend in Toronto ! 
 while all the wliile he well knew that it 
 was a mere delusion that lie was recording ? 
 
 Was -it any part of Dr. Ilalioweli's duty 
 as a coroner, to defame the memory of an 
 innocent, virtuous girl; to harrow the 
 feelings of her father, a most respect- 
 able farmer, who was prcs ut during the 
 whole of the dismal investigation — to slan- 
 der my son, whose future professional 
 career he might blast by those imputations, 
 and outrage public decency by publishing 
 the«e indelicate details, when it had been 
 
 filroady fully provf^l to him and to his jury 
 that tilt; idtii un which they were based had 
 no existence in reality ? 
 
 Moreover, wliat rigiit hid this corone" 
 to porrait his jury to ti(k on to tlieir 
 verdict a most ah-urd and injuriuu^ com- 
 ment upon my medical treatment of the 
 deceased, when, w>iatev(.r the merits or 
 the demerits of tfiat treatment may have 
 been, it coald have had no po.ssibio con- 
 nexion with the fatal n -ult of the cxso, 
 and that was all that tli*^ jury had any 
 business to deal with ? 
 
 Dr. Halloweli s condmU fhrou::l;out this 
 enquiry. I am inciined to attribute more to 
 inc ipaeity, and to a tntui ignoiance of wli;il. 
 really constitutes evidence, than to any 
 actual mali::nity tc.viirds iiiyself, whom 
 he allowed his jury improperly to censur.'; 
 or towards the nni'ortun ite dt-'^'ased. whoso 
 good name he has tried to tarnish. There- 
 fore I freely forgive him ami I liopo thit 
 the poor j^irl's rdatires may be induced 
 to forgive him ti»o for the slanders he ha.s 
 propaL'.it" 1 :ind (he misery that ho has occa- 
 sioned th-Mn. 
 
 The t'raguientary report wliich you pub- 
 lished of the evidence driven at tho iiiijuest, 
 and the totd clange you were ]>'caHcd to 
 make in the order in wliieh that evidence 
 was given, may lead peoph; to wonder 
 'vhy the jury t;sked me no fjuestione, 
 and why I siid rothinir, a« to the rnnditwn 
 "1 which deceased imngincd .she was. 
 When the Coroner allowed his jury to lis- 
 ten to matters totally foreign to the enquiry 
 that they were called upon to make, 
 which was, as T Inve already said, " how the 
 deceased had eoaie by her death," and 
 nothing else, then it became clearly his 
 duty to r'call me, and ask me to tell the 
 jury what I could, upon the new point thus 
 raised by the «.- (ailed evidence of the 
 nurses. I knew nothing whatever of these 
 strange charges raised against me and 
 against tny son, until I read them in 
 your paper of Saturday last ! 
 
8 
 
 Throughout the whole of rhli melancholy 
 case, hoTVcvci" distressing tlio dibclosurc of 
 sutth delicate loatters might be to the feel- 
 ings of my furaily. I have felt it to be 
 my duty to make no conccalinent of any 
 iriiportur.t f.icts from thoso who had a 
 right to be made aequaintod with, them, 
 or the telling of which could ;iid the poor 
 sufferer, by enabling tho?e physicians who 
 were to prescribe for her. to do so with 
 full knowledge of her condition. Thus, 
 before she had been taken to the Asylutn, 
 and even before she had wounded herself, 
 I told the wliole of her sad story to Dr. 
 Workman, as by that Tneans alone could he 
 have been ahie to treat her ease properly, as 
 far as the insanity was oonc'crned, and this 
 he stated at the inquest. If T)r. Adams 
 had been called upon to give evidence at 
 the inquest, as he should have been, he 
 would iii like manner have t'.^stified that 
 before asking him to help me to prescribe 
 for her, I had informed him fully of tlie 
 hallu^'ination as to my son thut liad taken 
 possctsion of ker mind. The letter which 
 he kiudly wrote to the Ltader on the "th 
 inst., '\A conclusive on this point. I sent 
 for tlie liev. Oeorge Young, at the poor 
 girl's request, to endeavor to sooth her 
 mind with the consolations of religion, 
 would any man, if his conscience told him 
 that there was, in his dealings with the 
 young woman, any mystery or impropriety 
 tliat required to be concealed, have asked a 
 clergyman, as 1 did, to sit with her alone 
 
 and ]ie;ir all her eclf-accusations, and those 
 that she might have to bring against 
 himself? 
 
 I feel assured that a calm consideration 
 of all the points which I have here faith 
 fully, arid I trust clearly, sot fortli, will 
 remove any possible unfavorable impres- 
 .'•iot; that your partial report of the evidence 
 and your most unwarrantable comments 
 thereupon may have created, ard convince 
 the public that, in all my dealings with 
 poor Mary Boyd, I have acted towards her, 
 both in my capacity as her physician, and 
 as the head of the hou.sehold of which she 
 was a member, faithfully, uprightly, and to 
 the very best of ability, and that I could 
 not have done more for her had she been 
 my own daughter. 
 
 In ail the distress that this sad calamity 
 has brought upon my family, we have the 
 gratifying consciousness that both myself 
 and my wife have done our duty honestly 
 and kindly to one who, while she lived 
 with T was a most faithful servant, whose 
 loss we deplore, and whose sad fate, ind 
 the sufferings which she endured before her 
 death, have dee^ily i fflictcd us all. 
 
 In spite of the wild delusions tliat took 
 possession of her mind, and vexed her latter 
 days, we shall always think of poor Mary 
 Boyd as a most virtuous, modest, and 
 exemplary young woman. 
 
 I) CAMPBELL, M D. 
 
 108 Bay .Street, 
 Toronto, May l.'Uh, 18C8. 
 
A few (lays uflei- the ]>iilili.;iiiuu of 
 (111' pro(ei.iiiiij U'lto?* ot i)\\ Campbfll. 
 tin: folUiwiiii^ fonHiiunication a]»poan''l 
 ill tlu' 'rcli'(jrnj>h from Dr. Workuuin, 
 Su]>erinL«.'n'lenl of the Provincial Lu- 
 natic Asylum. 
 
 LKTTEU FROM IHi W. "KK Af AN. 
 
 Kditor f>iii'/ Teit'^r,;/ih. — Ksi: — Tlio (ujijinuui- 
 catioii oi J)r < 'rtiiipln-ll, puldisiied in >oiii i<su.. 
 (.if tlif 14tli lust . has imputed on me tlie xm- 
 (ikasaut lu-cf s.>;ity of iviiiK^.ting .■jjiiut; in y<>iir 
 colatuiis for a fi-w observations on tlie mi.iiin- 
 fiil . ;isl- of the latf Mary i)0}<l. \vlii<h [ wuiiM 
 t,'liidly havi' bf-e'i fijiart'd from iirc^entinir to 
 your loudrrs , liiit tlu- ill-;i'lvi.'«eii ;tii>l iintrtuh- 
 fii! -.t;it<'mcnt>s of your covrcspoiKiout. toi;etljt'v 
 uitli my conviition of oiticiiil puhlic ifsjion- 
 siliiliiy. iinit .1 sol.mu i<>t!;ar(l to the intorists 
 fif liuniauity \v\:\ truth, appear to me to render 
 it iiiipctative that T .<l)0ulil Hot jjass over in 
 silence the tunneroiiK nntru<; assertion.s, and 
 L'ro>s exaggerations of <'a. t. involvd in his 
 .'oiiiHiiiiiiiatioTi 
 
 fU'fori-, however, ('nieriiig on tlii.v part of my 
 unpleasant (hitx , ptTinit me to ohserve, for the 
 mo'e fon-ii t giiidaijt e otycjui I'.'.'idi rs. that Dr. 
 ('anipl>ell liaw appropriately remarked that tlir 
 order in which thi- teHtimnny of the various 
 wituosse.s hefore tiie coroners intpie.st was 
 printeil, in yonr report of the proceediiitrs. was 
 not that iu whi h it took place. Mrs. Canip- 
 bell was the tirst " ituess iwamined. and T)r. 
 (,'aniiibeil s ttstiinoiiy wa.-i taken rn-xt. Tlieir 
 evideiiee • losed tlie pioi cedinpb of tins lirst 
 day My evidcnc" was the iir^t taken on tlie 
 second day; then followed that i>f the two 
 medic al ,t;'entlenien who ntade the /.■nM-mortem 
 examination, and after theirs the evulence of 
 the nnises and thi- matron. 
 
 It is by no nicins unimportant that this 
 reliiti<ni in point of tinu' he ktpi in vit-w, for 
 ot'urwiMc it cannot but appear to the rtrirler 
 tmuicouiitnl'li' thiit Di. i.'.imphi-ll, in Ids 
 evidence, said not a woni on sex ei-.i! important 
 facts s.tated in my evidence n-latiny; ti) liimst If 
 and ids treatment of Marv IJoyd, l>iit especially 
 that jHirtion of it wliich, in his conversations 
 witii me, and in hit< disi iissions hetore the in- 
 qnt st on the r-eeoiid day. with the medical 
 witnesses, he certainly eiideavotired to r'^'pre- 
 Hciit lis the nii'st niipcirtant of idl — 1 incrtn his 
 employnient of th>- ^alv.-mii' :i[ipariit>is. with a 
 view, a.s he slated, to ;i restc^ration of tlie men- 
 strual diseliai'ne. 
 
 I uouici also observe that, whether throngh 
 mimtakes in the notes of thc^ corotier, errors in 
 the transiMiptioh of them by your leportcr, or 
 by tlie fompositcH'.s in .setting the type, a few 
 •>ther ( oiicetions are called for, but I bhall not 
 tre.sparts on your valuable .'•pace with th< whole 
 
 of them. In my atisivers to tlie foreman of 
 the .jury, in riiiition to t.he room iu which 
 Mary Boyd was kejit, foi the tir.st two nights 
 after admission, the words of yourrejie.rt might 
 lead \'j doubt as to whetiiei this room wa.-, or 
 wa.s not heated in the .same manner as the adja- 
 cent roon'.-. .My stateiaeiit v,-as. •• It is Ac., 
 In tlu. evidi'nce of .lane MeOonachty, the 4th 
 of March is jdven itistead of ilie Uth. 
 
 In the evidenccot M.-.ry Ann Corbitt, instead 
 of - witness said slu- -..ould not [jlace implicit 
 eoiitldencc iji anyfiiin_' she .^aicl re -peetiii.i; her 
 illness.' the report should liave been. -iShe 
 we-abi Tiot place implicit < cmhdence in '•very 
 thing she said. '• 
 
 iravint,' made thf,-c' preliminarv observations, 
 I «ouki now address myself to the main .subject 
 of this oomuiiniiefttioii. — I>r < ampbells letti^r 
 above referied io — not that f purpo.se to reply 
 to it« entire contents. iV.r neitle^i vour s^vue, 
 ncir my time, warrant.s su-.b e.xtinsion. 
 
 Dr Camj)tiell was not pr.'s. nt when my tes- 
 timony was taken by ihecoroui'r and the jary , 
 but it was handed to him forpc riisal as xo. .n as 
 he (iime in from the y;- ■■,' 7/i');^'in e.vainio.ii ion, 
 and after n^idint; it, he ex])ressect iiini'- df t(» 
 the '^tfi-et, that it was t mrei t Any al!>>.;atiotis, 
 therefore, which Dr. t.'ampbell may now make 
 to impugn Ma corrertnesF, are cjiiite out of 
 place. I was not present at the ;)(;?M«erfe»rt ; 
 liut in oompany uitli I)r Richardson, Dr. 
 Berryman, and tli- coroner, Dr. TlaiTlowell. on 
 the previous afteiiiooti. 1 assisted in a very 
 careful and close examination of tie.' exterital 
 se.xuai parts of the de< eased. Mary Bcyd. There 
 was not a particle of doidit In the miudR of 
 any of the four of us. ttiat the recognized ana- 
 tomical eridenees of virginity were decidedly 
 absent ; and Drs. Itichardson and Berryman, in 
 reply to a <inestion from the coroner, as to 
 whether thev had found these anatomical evi- 
 (tences present, rei)li<-il cinpliati" a!l\ . they 
 '•most decidedly had not found them, t 
 Whether the coroner t-ook down their answer, 
 I cannot state : — that they made it, as I have 
 here; givc-n it, I am perle. tly certain. I ha\ e not 
 seen Dr. Berryman sinee the impiest. But I 
 have met both the coroner and Dr Kichardson 
 since, and they both state that I an. ci^rrect in 
 this matter 
 
 Dr. Campbidl. however, athi ins that he .l/C'f/'ii 
 that " she," Mary lioyd. 'died as she had live- 
 ed. a spotless virgin." He al.so states, withre- 
 .irard to her delusion, as to pregnary, and to 
 
 "• The word? of tho wimesf. as taken down by the 
 Coroner, were : " I wonbi nc t plai'e implicit depend- 
 ance on any thing ."he :<iid respec-tinif her illne.''S " 
 
 t The words of Drs. Hichanilson and BerryaiHO 
 taken down are as fellowi" : •■ We examined '.bt- parts 
 ofueneration and froui tbi^ examinatiin wo feunJ 
 the hymen alirumt obliterated, although wo do not 
 think this is an invnriable mark of the absenoe uf 
 virginity." 
 
10 
 
 sexual intcrcuurse with his Kon. that-'a sub- 
 Hf'i; '•-lit exauii nation of hfi iterson convinced 
 him I'f thtj itniio.ssihility of her delusion,' 
 
 Til the sevcioly iritii-al the {ihovc woni.s 
 inisriit ii]i})..ar under an H.-ju'ct of Delpliic ani- 
 hi;j^uity, Tlifrc can, Ijovcvt-i, he no doiiht 
 that Dr, t anipbeirsolij.-cthaslpeen tocstahlish 
 not tlio inijiOsisiliility of the girl being under de- 
 lusion as to •<exual intercourse and pregnancy, 
 but the ciintrary ; nay, the cifrtainl;/ of her 
 delusi<in. It is very niucli to be wishecl tliat 
 l.'r. (,'ainpbell had stated tlie exact time at 
 wliich he made the aboM " .••■ii/)-<egu>nt e-X'inii>i,i- 
 /i'-n and tire names of the iien^on or jiersinns, 
 luedital nr nfm-mediial. iii \■.•i)<1^(,• pn-sence he 
 had made such examination, ft is, 1 appre- 
 hend, ijuite apparent from the context, that 
 he made it aftes lie tliouglit the girl was insane 
 or ■■ driftiiii,' into insanity, Perliafishis friend 
 l>r. Ad'inu---. will irn)e f<ir\vard and tell us if lie 
 wa.s prest nt. as hf has informed us, thv'iut'li 
 the Lfiidi'i . Iliat he had '' full l---iiiv\ e dge i.f all 
 tlie leiiicdia! nii-asnres that were used.' This 
 examination, tc be sure, was not remedial ; but 
 it WH>< by no means tinimixirtant in a thera- 
 pe'itic point (if view ; for any man who wonki 
 emjiloy galvanic excitement to the uterus df a 
 \uiing woman. of whose piegnaney he had even 
 the fh-i-liiir of a nHyfnrion, i.- iii jilain language. 
 no otln-r thaji a i-rimijial ai><irtir>i)ist, arid 
 shi'Uid be all.ited Ins prnjier jdat e in the world. 
 b\ the sub' I'l' Ndtinan. and uther destroyers m 
 tif.- 
 
 n In i'ampbeli iMUnd, in his '• subsenmnt 
 examination, cb'ai proofs of the virginit\ <>f 
 Mar\ Boyd, and if neither he. nor I. nor Di 
 Hicliardhi'!!. r>eii\man lu Hallowell. f«;iind 
 thes( . in the umrtuar} of the Asylum, whi'n 
 and where, I demand of Dr Campbell, did 
 tle-M- jirnofs cease tii exist Will l>?.(.'anij>- 
 bell insinuate that the change tuok jdaie :ifter 
 he banded the patient imo my care ! 'J'hat a 
 thangc';—H great cLang. — (it being assumed 
 that Dr. (.'ampliells assertions, as tn what lie 
 saw in his ■• sub.'Jeiiuent examination," of the 
 p( r.son of ^larv Ito>d are true.) bad taken jdace 
 i,- beyond ail ijuestiiin ■ for any medical man, 
 wb'i, fvfim insjiection of the external partes 
 aft'i death in this case, woubl assert that sex- 
 ual inti'r( (lurse bad never taken [ilace, wnuld 
 be sdmethinf; nnire, and wurse. than an ass. 
 
 With rcL'ard to the dis< ussion, permitttd by 
 tin' Ooriitier, betwi'cn Dr. Campbell and the 
 mi dieal witnesses, as to tin- true character of 
 the uterine condition <>( Mary l!<iyd, 1 have Jio 
 desin to identity m\self with the views ot 
 cftb.ei party, DrCampbell spoke nftheiase 
 to me. as being otic of amenorrlnea, and he con- 
 tended for the like view before the jury •Dr.s 
 
 * Or. Workman i5 entirely UHStakeu here. I)r. 
 ramiihell oonfiilcrHil this a ooso of Dysmenorrhwa 
 a- J called it gi> both to Dr. Workman in hie firet 
 
 Richardson and Berryman appeare<I to hold 
 that the case was rather one ot tiysmenorrho-a, 
 and if so that galvanic excitement was totally 
 unsuiteil to it, 
 
 1 haA'e, jierhaps. examined m(>re dea<i liodien 
 of men and women than any medical pactitiimer 
 in the city I liavi . since the inrjiiest. minutely 
 anil [latienfl* examined the uterus of Mary 
 Boyd and its appendages, and 1 am decidedly 
 of oiiinion that when she died she v as labour- 
 ing under intlammation ot the womb and the, 
 fallojiian tubes. The fornnr was fully tvvii e 
 the normal size,! and it.s colour showeil feaiful 
 vascidar engorgement. Both Falloj)ian tubes 
 contaiiii'd juis. The right one was, in fact, 
 distendi'd with |)us. and myiiads of epithdial 
 ci'lls, as tiroved iindei' the nncroscope, Dr, 
 Bocell, I)r Uii haids;on and Dr, Benj. Workman 
 can coviiiborate this .statement If these facts, 
 aiid the universal ei ingested condition, of thi; 
 blood vessels of the entire se.xuai or.eans, do 
 nvit indicate the existence of inflanimatoiy dis 
 ease. I vvomler what othev luuof would do so. 
 
 The right ovary showed a verv distinct ror- 
 f'jx ,'ii.teii7ii. Aledical reaih-rs will neither un- 
 derrate nor overrate the value of this fact. 
 
 Dr. Campbell has assert etl thatthe '• ])oor old 
 father ' of Mai y Boyd • was never allowed 
 even to see her. ' tb.ou,!jii he (Dr. Catniibcll) 
 had sent foi- hiui. and he >' had come from a 
 •rreat (iistancc.' Dr Campben could, if he 
 wished to state the whoU truth, have told the 
 juiblic why Mary Boyds father did uoi see her 
 liefore tleatli, i did not prexenthim irom see- 
 ing his daughter: on the ''onttary 1 did my 
 utmost to etieet an interview , but Mary Boyd 
 persistently refused to see her father on < very 
 •"Kicasion but one, on which 1 pressed her tn 
 see him When at length she assented to my 
 bringing him to her ri'onc and I went to bring 
 him, he declined to go. s.iying to me he ••lould 
 look on her calmly if she was dead, but n(>t in 
 her present state!' 1 replied to him. "Mv. Boyd 
 had you 'fKhni my advice as to what you should 
 do. that is exactly uhat 1 would have suggest- 
 ed to yoi! ' This is the sum and substince 
 of the matter. 1 leave your leailers to judge of 
 the grounds ((<>r they were kni'wn by Dr. 
 Camjibell) on vUiich ] have lieen cliargcd with 
 want ot fc'linu towards the distracted fkther 
 of piK.ii Miiri/ /'oi/il 4 
 
 eiinsnltation in the ca»e, ami subHSouently to the 
 
 jury. 
 
 t The eviilence of Dra, Richariison and Berryman 
 .«hows this tti be inonrrecl. they ulate thit the womb 
 wu.s of the iiatinal si7.>, 
 
 I It wa.« only as an evideni'e thai ,)r. Workman 
 beUt'ved in the onutiiniuil int^anity. ,nnt hi? rcfuaal 
 te allow .>lr. Boyil to .'oe hi.- da'uthtor was referred 
 to. Dr. Caniiibell thought Mr W irkman iierfcctly 
 .iu?tit!cd iu rhin refusal. llUil Or. Workman belie^'cd 
 her to be sane it would have been cruelty indeed. 
 
n 
 
 1 fi-ai, indrcil ] know I>r ( ' , i.* in thf haljit 
 of usiny strong tifinnitivt; liinj^iiuj^t;. He tdls 
 V'liir rea<l(is tli;it Mary P.oyd «iis kept /,iinoii>'/ 
 \Mt)i(>iit lelaxntion up to tli.> time of her dentli. 
 Tht- tfvm pini'ininff is oin' of most (ii.->iiLTc<.'aliIi- 
 assoLiution, Jt is now rmrb) iis.'d. tinlvss iii 
 horiifyiui^ ii(,'tails of a iiwiilic cxcciitioii. It is 
 very jiaintnl to find it assoi iat(-d witli tin- nanu 
 of such a .sufferer as Mai > Jloyd was ; what- 
 t'\(ii fe<:Iin^^s if iniirlit r\(ik(; when 'nioloytd 
 on a more appropriatt' relation. 
 
 Mar\ l«o\dwart nux j-iriioni'l. <.'u lierddmis- 
 si'tii, so (*oon as .she was pL-u ed in lied 1 sent 
 for a lfit;h-rr niiif, siicit :is >v<- eni|d(>y in all siin- 
 ilai I ases, iind I applied it niyi^idf, in presi-nre 
 of Di. ('aniplx-U, not iudeed up to her deatli. 
 hnt until a (tay or so liefore it. when I substi- 
 tiitid two soft elianmis nloves, coupled liy a 
 strai> , and tlicse l>r. Campbell saw on bci 
 hands at his last visit to lier. 
 
 Th'' leather ninll is the safest und least an- 
 nuvitig restraiht a{>pliance known t" iin-. J 
 obtained the pattern from tin- I'tica Asylum, 
 where it is hifrhly joized. and f have had sev- 
 eral others maile from it liy a saddb-i . who. I 
 heiiev*', has also ma«le several for parties out- 
 side, in the nian.auemiTit of «\Ttain persons re- 
 quiring to be denied the free nsu of thfir limbs. 
 
 I reL;anled as of ri',i/ importanii , that a sui- 
 cidal patient who had two davs bufore attemp- 
 ted drownini;, and was now bruni^ht t(> nn- with 
 hi r throat cut, siiould not have tli- fr< ■• use i.t 
 hi 1 bands, and I lulievi' e\. iv profossiunai 
 man. poss.-s.sfd of ronmion sense and <<iniiuon 
 humanity will concur witli ni'- in this •, low.* 
 I do not eoncca! that Di ('anii)bel! urycd ini' 
 more than once . * set Ma!\ ){oyds hands free. 
 [ replied '• I dare lot do so, h)r she might \\ !tb 
 them tear open the wound in hor throat.' 
 His answer was. •• vhot i/ she doi-xV' 1 nuw ask 
 what if she did? 'Ivvo results would have en- 
 sued: Dr. Camiibell w(iidd h.ive bi'eii sn])|ilied 
 with an important fact, wliicli. from .'ill 1 have 
 seiii, ri'ad and heard, he woidd unt havi.' failcl 
 to use to ujy ]>rejudii tj. li l:* lias made -.u 
 mm h out of what lie i alls niy />')iii,>nnff, does 
 aicv one believe he would ni>t ha', e left me pin- 
 ioned with the responsibility of haviiijj; alloui d 
 Mar\ J'.oyd toteHro[)eii the wiusnd in her thioat 
 and th'is t(i have created an a<iditional fart in 
 the ]>athology of the case. lb- may .tile:: ■ that 
 two nurses ro'lld have h'-li) her hands, and 
 thus J might havt- avoided t)ie use of lie- muH 
 Any one who will .«a\ or bfliiMC that this si<rt 
 of restraint is h.-ss iiksome to the [>atient. than 
 the niuft. must l>e utterly ignorant of the subject 
 
 he presumes to speak t.n The si Kind fa(t 
 woidd liave boi-ii, no niori >p- akin:.: b\- the pa- 
 tient t 
 
 With re-|iect t>i I)r. ("aiii|ibeir; t'lrning over to 
 me the nurses i.f the Asvbnii, who s**^© tcritiiBiiny 
 at the innuest, t<i dv;i\ with them as I think fit, I 
 shall have plciisure in discharging this duly. X 
 therefore avail my.solf "f thi.« ucea'ion, t') Ihank 
 thdso nuispp fur the assiduifv, kindneps' and 
 tidelif}', witli whio!) tiiuy Oinried "111 my in-striie- 
 tions, in the ■■are of Mary Boyd ; I am sure, too, 
 r am e.\j>ro«sing a omivietii'n u\ whieh Kiery 
 uienihcp iiltlii- intelligent and re.'fiectable jury who 
 sat on the imnies' was a sharer, when I .«ay that 
 never did an erjual nand.»er of voung w.mien, 
 under a similar exanuiiation, evini'c more ne'destv, 
 coolness, good sense and propriety ■•{ demeanour. 
 This i.' the only visiiation which I think their 
 conduet oalis fur. In-, ('.iiiipbeirs allegation a.s to 
 their •■ w.irrying the pour girl with their i^Uv'siion.s 
 to gratify their j-.rurienl oiiriosity,'" is a.i unfound- 
 ed as it is lioastly. The only question I have 
 heard of Keing a.sked by them was th.it by .'sarah 
 KUiott. and this bs the only one I>r, t.'am]>bell has 
 been able to in.=tance,f It i- my belief .■^arah 
 Klliii't had no antii^ipation of a n-i/nliv repU 
 from Mary lioyd, or she would not have a.«keil the 
 4Uostlon, The nurses. :ind tnj'self. and all a.s.sist- 
 iag ine, ahsfaiiied from iiuestioning Mary Boyd, 
 but it was impos.-iblo to keep Mary Boyd tr.iln 
 speaking, or (after the .^nture in her wound wus 
 cut) endoavonriiig to .-peak,; I now take no credit 
 to myself for this abstinence. On the contrary, I 
 am very sorry I did not niiestion her, for with 
 the aid of statements inada to me by Dr. Campbell, 
 I tnink L mtsrht have elicited Irom her some 
 Ta 111 able informati'U. 
 
 1 fear, Mr. Ed'tor, I have iiiiduly trespassed on 
 your st>ace. if not nn ymir jiatieii-e, though I 
 have not written all that I might write, nor nil 
 that the jaiblie ui.ay tliuik I sh(<iild write. All 
 who kn.iw me will believe that it woiild have been 
 very satisfactory to no; to have escaped the 
 necessity of jiutting bebre your readers the un- 
 pleii ant statttinents eontjiined iii this commaniea- 
 tion ; liut a due cotisiderution of the position oe- 
 'U]iied by iirc in the largfist^public institution in 
 Canada h.is -on-strained me to correct, through 
 your coUimns, some of th? misstatements and 
 fallacies involved in the coinniunioution of Dr. 
 ''ampbeli. 
 
 .lO.-SEl'H WuRKMA.N, M. D. 
 Med. .euji't. t'. L. Asylum. 
 
 Toronto, May It 1868. 
 
 • Dr. Workman was perfectly right in ut^inat the 
 restraint and no one could think of blaming him for 
 it, until he began to throw doubt on the insanity ot 
 the patient, of i-ourHe if she was as sano anil calm as 
 the nurses allege, the binding her arms waj an un- 
 necc.?8ary cruelty. 
 
 ■* This surcl.v, whatever l)i. AVorkiiian mny think, 
 Would have greatly assisted ti.r healing ot the wound. 
 
 1 See evidence. 
 
 9 No doiiht it is true that the girl was constantl> 
 lOing to speak, but it was the duty of ])r. Workman 
 to hare Biveii orders to nrevcnt it altogether, if he 
 wiehed the wound to heal. 
 
In !(jii!\v(r to till' abov! (jomiiinnication "^ 
 L)r W'oiktnaii, n letter was sent to tin Editoi 
 i>f Ihf T'h'ji-Afh. Nvliidi In- thus ai kuf)wk''le^t-8 
 in liis paper of Fi'i<!ay, '.Jnd May. 
 
 TriK Maiu I'.'.U) Ca-k. — \^'^; liavo. to-day, 
 ri'(i'ivp(.l a IiTigtJiv Lcutuv fi(>ni I»r. Caiiifil'Cll 
 iii (Oiinfiniijii witb tlii-: uiatt< r. whuh wi. will 
 puMish in the t.arly part of next w-rk... 
 U-nhj TH'fjTHi.h, Fri<ia>i, Mnt'ii. ••S»..i? 
 
 Sf,-cond Letter of Dr, Campbeil to Editor 
 Daily Telegraph. 
 
 E'litoi Daily Telegraph, 
 
 Sir, — On the day after Dr. Workman's 
 letter appeared in your paper, n tViead, 
 whoso real name it is not neces>iary to dis- 
 close, but v'hoai for ooiivenience 1 shall call 
 " Mr. Blank, ' called at my house for pro- 
 t'essional advice : when I hid ilone what he 
 required, he asked me to explain somt 
 points connected with the " Inquest at the 
 Asylum," which did not set tn quite clear to 
 hiui. We had a long talk, or to speak 
 more correctly, " Mr. Blank," who i:j a 
 lawyer, subjected me to a most searching 
 cross-examination, at the end of which he 
 told me that ho was pcrl'cetly satisfied with 
 my explanations, and that, if I could put 
 the matter before the public, as clearly as I 
 had done to him, the public would be satis- 
 fied also. 
 
 it then occurred to me that instead of 
 writing a formal letter in answer to Dr. 
 Workman, I should ask you to put in print 
 a report of our colloquy. J have written it 
 down in the order, and us nearly in tiie very 
 words in which it was held, and I now ask 
 you to publish it. 
 
 You may possibly demur to its length, 
 but I had to reply to two columns of insinu- 
 ations, and you can hardly expect a shorter 
 reply to so long an indictment. 
 
 If any of your reader.s should complain 
 that I have spoken of matters better fitted 
 for a medical periodical, they muft not 
 
 blame mc, but rather those who tlrst brought 
 the .subject before the general public in your 
 column.* 
 
 Those wh) know the grief which my 
 family feel at the untimely end of thi.s 
 young woman, will freely acquit me of any 
 desire to treat so sad a subject with any- 
 thing like levity. 
 
 Home remarks of my friend I have had 
 to modify, when they were too flattering to 
 myself, and I have greatly toned down the 
 terms in which be spoke of Dr. Wi>rknian. 
 
 ^'hould JDr. VVorkuian, neverthelc-s, com- 
 plain of my letting the public kuow his 
 character as delineated by " Mr. Blank," 
 hi. must remember that I was not the 
 aggressor, that he made a most unprovoked 
 attack upon mo in your paper, and thai the 
 motto of my native country is '• Nemo me 
 tinpnne iacesset." 
 
 D. CAMPBELL, M.D. 
 
 106 Bav Street, 
 
 Toronto, 2oth May. 1868. 
 
 LTv. (JiMPBELi.. at the reiju.-st of th^ Editor of 
 the Tilenru^ili. took the trouble to have his 
 letter ' opiwl out in a clear legible hand, .so as 
 to oiiabli- the Printers to do their work as 
 expi (Utiously as possible. Neverthele.<s, after 
 this had been done, he was told hy the Eiiitor 
 that unleiis this artiele were cut <lown 
 to wliat would be equal to four column.'* of 
 type it could not be admitted Dr. Workniao, 
 he .said, bail onlv taki;ri up two columns in 
 hih attaek, and he thought he was dealing very 
 liberally in allowiiii; Dr. Campbell four co!- 
 unms for his replv 
 
 It was in vain pointed out to him that this 
 was not like a (ontroversy on a politieal, 
 r- ligious. or medical' topic, where each {.arty 
 could only fairly expert to be allowed to say 
 as much as his opponent ; but that it was a 
 refutation of «fcrious eharges. which could not 
 be done in the same t* umber of words ah 
 sufficed for the accu.sation. Moreover, he was 
 
13 
 
 reminded that he hnd distinctU told In. 
 r.'iiui>l>oll bi.'J'(>!r lie liejran to uTit<-. that fi'> 
 wi.iiM not n-Htri' t th*- Icntrth of liis rt;[>!\ 
 
 A )'-tt r of tiic I.Mi.rii tlie Editor <.i tho T-i'- 
 gr-}j,h <i>ll'.'d ti.i imglit pti.-si'nly have li-tii iiidn 
 a<T'[itaide to thi puldii' tliari ihe i (mv( rsatiori 
 hereafter i'.'[iortL'd. iait it ro'ild not huv.' juit 
 i\>o "iibjf(t in .>o i li/ar a lizht. 
 
 '1 o c> iridense laurii uititt'.i in »niit!l >\>Ai.i' is 
 a 'Aork oi irrt'Ht labotn ani! involving i'ar 
 |;it.rttvi less of tiino than to writuat full leiiLith 
 Talleyrand said on.c to a friend, 1 ha\f wiitt' u 
 
 yoti a long hHtfr, hut 1 really had uot tini'- to 
 niaki; it shorter. l>i ( ainfil vK f It, that h<' 
 had alrea<l> given t^ Thr itfutation of groiiud- 
 less slanders, time that ought properly to 
 have been devoted to his piofes.sional duties 
 Ho therefoie. loolceii up.iu the eondensinir 
 work asked for a'^ beii,Lr out oi the question, he 
 had no time to undertake it, and the insist- 
 intc of it amounted to an absolute refusal Xu 
 allow iiiui t]i(.' use of the iidnnins of the 7'7- 
 tfrai.h at all. He has. tiierefore. been <on!- 
 jielhd to havi- the (citiniuiiieatioii jiriiited 
 elsewhere, and it innv apijrars for tie' rir.-t tiiue. 
 
 Dialogue on the Mary Boyd case between 
 Dr. Campbell and Mr, Blank 
 
 Mr. Ijla.nk. Ilavo yu -imui ye.stff- 
 (lay's Tilcjriifi/i, i)oct<jr? 
 
 Dr. Campbei-l. Of course 1 have, 
 hiieh ugreeal'k' rnalters never tJiko long 
 in reaching ilie ]»artvtiiev ai-e intended 
 to eompiimeiit. 
 
 Mr. B. What do you ])ropose to do 
 about the slanderous atlaeks made upon 
 30U in that paper; de >ou m^'an to go 
 to law for red re as? 
 
 Dr. C 1 had some sueh notion, and 
 wrote a letter to that etleet to the 
 editor of the Ttleymph. 
 
 Mr. 13. ^Vhi(•h I .see he publiishod. 
 although I scarcely 8U])pose you feel 
 obliged to him for having done ,so, but 
 it supplied him with matter for a spicy 
 
 f)aragraph, so you must not blame 
 um. 
 
 Dr. C He is perfiectly welcome to 
 all he made by it. As to going to law : 
 this morning I had a long coni«ultation 
 with a legal friend of very high stand- 
 
 ing — (I hope yr.u wiii excuse ni for 
 not relying iijciii y">ir profe>sioiial 
 advice aloii'- in -tieh an im|Mtrtant 
 matter) — well . m}- friend sjiokc to me 
 with his usual frankness aiid honesty, 
 and advi-!?eil nu* in have nothing to do 
 wit!i law. 
 
 Ml B. Why-;' hid he think that 
 you had no ground of action ? 
 
 !)]•. ('. Fat- from it. Iietiiought I ha-l 
 the very strongest grounds, ami was 
 almost certaii that 1 should olttain a 
 veniic!. 
 
 iiv 
 
 lie 
 
 ad 
 
 VI S<' VO'l 
 
 Mr. B Then w 
 agaitis;! it V 
 
 fh. (,'. Because he i.s aii liune-t man. 
 lie said that tliC vindication of my 
 ehai'acter, private and professional, was 
 more my <,)bjt'ct than mere money 
 damages, and that he was very far trom 
 sure, that however fully my connexion 
 with the ''Asylum fn<juest " might he 
 justitic'l, of wliich he was kind enough 
 to add that lie enlerlained not the 
 >.lighte^t doubt, yet that the evidence 
 by which my conduct would be vindi- 
 cated, would necessarily involve so 
 many technical b tail.s, intelligible o:ily 
 to my own ])rofessiun, that the genera! 
 public would never get a clear idea of 
 the matter, and tnight. ])erhaps, even 
 after a verdict in my favor, say. '• Oh 
 yes! we remember; J)r. Campbell got 
 involved in a law suit about some u»- 
 pleasant case in the Asylum ; there 
 were many curious points set up. and 
 the doctors involved the whole in so 
 much mystery with their long words 
 that we really cannot tell exactly liow 
 it ended.' 
 
 Mr. B. What, then, did lie advise 3'ou 
 to do ? 
 
 Dr. (.'. ITe said : " You had better 
 write a lett«!r in as plain language as 
 possible, meeting all the (diarges, or 
 rather insinuations, for I aee they bring 
 no actual charge against you, and get 
 it published before the subject gi^ows 
 cold." I thanked him for his candour, 
 and intend to follow his advice and 
 write a letter this evening. 
 
 Mr. B. And where do you proj>ose to 
 
u 
 
 publi-li it? N'l'itliir iho (llohc luu- 
 rlif [.ttiilpr \\'\\\ h;ivt' Mliytliiii;;" to 'In 
 with it, iiiii-l ihc Tt'leirni^h will not 
 likoly allt)\v yoii tiie iis»' ot ii" columns. 
 
 Dr. (■. Yet 1 may I'aii-ly iisk tla 
 I'llilui" ol' the T(:lii/r<i/>/t (o lii' >»(>, ;t> 
 as it. was in hiss [»a)KT tlini ilif cliarjies 
 wore nia(h' 
 
 Mr. 11. Well, |M.^^il.ly he may He 
 ha.s no reason to ejilertain any ill 
 will lowart.ls you. He-idfs In' Will 
 readily eiioiiifh jiiil in au\fhinij sensa- 
 tional, as your letter on .<iul) a siihj'ei 
 is likely to he; and remember this, that 
 however hard the Tdf'/raph niay have 
 l>et;n up<.»n you, it hu?- not i>een half .'<o 
 much so as Dr. Workman. 
 
 Dr. C. True; and I am «(uite at a loss 
 to understand what 1 can have done to 
 Dr. Workman, to induce him to make 
 .such horrible insinuations as ho does 
 in his letter, or ii>e <ueh lantjuajiit! 
 towards me. 
 
 Mr. B. V(ju don ! know Dr. Wtuk- 
 iiian half as well as I do. If you did, 
 you would he at no loss whatever to 
 understand it An old newspaper 
 man, he delii^hts in strife and ])arty 
 warfare. For soirio time hack lie has 
 been <^ettin^ rather ■• blue-mouldy for 
 want of a tight,' and yxuir letter has 
 given him a pretext to alt.iek you. 
 
 Dr. C. 1 don't think it did 
 
 M. B. Anyhow, ho has jujuped at it, 
 and you had better lo(d\ out. you have 
 roused a most formidable antagonist. 
 When editor of a Koman (Jatholie paper, 
 ihtJ Toronto Mirror, he was looked 
 upon a.s the most bitter and reckless 
 slanderer that ever handled a pen ; 
 perfectly unwcriipulous, but far too 
 practised and wary a controvei^ialist 
 to maki^ a direct charge wheii an in- 
 sinuation would answer hi.s purpose. 
 
 Dr. C. I am really .sliocked at your 
 giving Dr. Workman such aeliuraeter, 
 to me he has always been most polite 
 and courteous ; in fact T have been par- 
 ticularly impressed with the mildness 
 of his jKldro»8, and tho gentleness of hi* 
 manner. 
 
 Mr. B. What T May is nevertheless 
 
 true, and \()U will find it oiit before' you 
 h;ive done with him, any ot ihe old 
 .■stagers ot Toronto will coirolKU'ate it. 
 ^'o;i have liiih(>rto ftdt only Ids velvet 
 paw. iiow he mcatis to give you a taste 
 of his claws. You little know the man 
 whose ire you have awakened, nor the 
 rancorous and vindictive heart that 
 beats beneaih thai -moolh, sndiitig e.v 
 terior. He is quite in his element now 
 thai lie has soinc one u]>on whom lo 
 discharge the venom ticcuniiihited dur 
 ing some years of comj>araliv,' inac 
 lion. Ont-e when he \vas ■'■' "'■' '■^- * 
 
 Dr. (!, Stop! 1 cannot listen to any 
 more of tliis. D is really dreadful to 
 hear you talk ,so Ivit, in reading my let- 
 ter can you see bow 1 have otleiuled Dr. 
 Workman so as to juake him select mo 
 as the object of his rancour. I brought 
 no charge agairist him whatever, but 
 on the contrary, gave him fidl credit 
 for having i.s.sucd judicious orders lu 
 his >ubordi)uites f<u' the Trianagement 
 of this most painful ca.se. 
 
 Mr. B. 1 know that you said nothing 
 w hatever again.>t Dr. Workmait himself 
 in your letter; but it matters not ; \-ou 
 have b(!en presumptuous enough to 
 hint that something could exist in the 
 Provincial Lunatic A.sylum which was 
 n(»t absolute perfection, and that, in 
 Dr. Workman's eyes, is an unpardona- 
 ble crime. It wa.s Dr. VV<n'kman's toes 
 you tro«l upon, when you attacked his 
 " Sarah Gamps," atid let me tell you, 
 that, yon had better have tro<lden on a 
 rattlesnake. 
 
 Dr. ('. I <'oid'ess that I could not re- 
 strain my indignation when I thought 
 of hov; tliat poor suffering girl had been 
 worried by those women's questionings, 
 but if Dr. Workman iiimsclf hail not 
 proclaimed it to the world, I could 
 never have imagined that it was with 
 hi.s full c(\nsent and approbation that 
 she had been so tortured. I am sorry 
 to see that he .so far forgets himself a** 
 to express his regret that he did not 
 himself a-ssist them in tormenting her 
 a little more. 
 
 Mr. B. Yes, to elicit some ' valuable 
 
15 
 
 iii/un»ialH>u ' as In- ox^ircssos it . llimigh 
 T j'cully (Ifin't see \vliat more r>r. Work- 
 iiiiiii citultl t'Xpoc't to .squeeze Ironi 
 lu>- 1 iliiiik yon mn>it have told lum 
 all that tli«- iiuises subsequently w uricd 
 out of her. 
 
 Dr. C. True, in the eun.-iultation I l^ad 
 with him on her ease 1 told hiin all 
 her didusioDs, nil Iht ailnifnts and all 
 the treatment that slit- had received. I 
 tiiiiil; he eajiiu)t lueiitiiin a single point 
 tlial has since hfen made uif, that I 
 ♦lid not fully and frankly state to him, 
 before ever the girl was sent to the 
 Asylum — not that J ever expeett il he 
 was going to make tiiese j»rof<fssional 
 <.'ommunifatioi'.s th<' talk of the ■whole 
 town. 
 
 Mr. B. W'a.s it not a most improjier 
 and a gross breaehof protessional eonli- 
 dence to reveal anything thus told himy 
 f . as a lawyer, see that no man has any 
 business to give as evidence anything 
 whieh another man has told hini, 
 Hjjd 1 Huppose you wouiil say on your 
 part that no physieian has any right 
 to eoinnumieate what may have pa.s.sed 
 between hims<df and another metlioal 
 man in eonsultation with reference to 
 any patient. 
 
 i>r. C. Dr. Woikman was ])erfectly at 
 lib«.'rt3- to tell the jury all he eouhl as 
 far as I am concerned, if he felt himself 
 waiTanted by professional etiquette in 
 l^iving the details of a consultation, for 
 Hucli it really was. 
 
 Mr. B. I don't see why you should he so 
 annoyed at the nurses for giving the 
 •evidence they did before the Coroner? 
 It told nothing against you. 
 
 Di'. C I know it did not, nor am I 
 At all anno3'ed at their having given it ; 
 thti}^, at least, had a perfect right to 
 tell the (,'oioner everything that they 
 had heard Mary Boyd say, if he knew 
 so little of his duty as to put it down 
 as evidence. 
 
 Mr. B. I suppose if their prototype 
 the original "Sarah Gamp,"' had pre- 
 sented herself at the inquest and com- 
 municated some mysterious fact that 
 her mythical friend " Mrs. Harris" had 
 
 ju'^f told her, C'^ron(>r Ilalloweil would 
 havt.1 thought ii his duty lorihwilh to 
 re< ord it. 
 
 Dr. C. What I ■ annot f-ii-inve is 
 the tortuiing process by which this so 
 called evidence was obtained. 
 
 Mr. r>. ITavtyou rea<l Charles licade's 
 bonk, '■ Vejy hai'd cjish '"f if not. gel 
 it at once, and you will find a de- 
 scription of some liii i j>arallel lases. 
 of Asylum torturing; the callousness 
 to iiUTuari sutt'eriiii; whi(di i.s cngcn- 
 dere<l by daily conlart with lunatics is 
 also very .strongly brought out. Hat 
 what was the.s]»ecial proccs.s that thu^e 
 brawny attentlants of poot Mary B'>y<l 
 put in practice to extort ari-iwers to 
 thi'ir importunate questions. 
 
 I'r. C. After the ?,cO'>nd du}', to get 
 her to speak at all they were obliged 
 altnost to stitle her, by < losing the only 
 oritice through whi. h she could breathe 
 freely. 
 
 Ml'. B IIow do voii mean y 
 
 Dr. C. You must understand that 
 for at least four days betore her death, 
 frr>m noon on the Friday, until Tuts- 
 iiay wh<'n she died. Iier chief, I may 
 almost H'dv her only means of breathing 
 was through the Avound in the wind- 
 pipe, from which the stitches, b«Mng of 
 no further u.si!, had been removed, the 
 laiynx, or vocal apparatus, being 
 above this cut, no speaking could be 
 done witliout fir.st preventing the air 
 fix>m escaping through the hole in the 
 throat, some of it could thus be 
 passed up through the larynx, and 
 words imperfectly articulated. Tho 
 choking effect of this must have been 
 fearfully painful, and the motion thus 
 caused in the wound destroyed all pros- 
 pect of its healing. 
 
 Mr. B. But how came the larynx to 
 be so stopped up as to prevent breath- 
 ing, except through the hole iu tho 
 throat; and why was the removal of 
 the stitches necessary ? 
 
 Dr. C. Inflarnmation had set in , ori- 
 ginally, no doubt, occasioned by tho 
 wound, but very greatly aggravated by 
 the cold dry atmosphere of the Asylum. 
 
16 
 
 Mr. B. Tlit'ii, why did you not U-ll 
 tlioiii ii> j)iit Ik'i info a waniur viHim ' 
 
 l>r. (.'. TliLV had imt. ii, the \vhol»' 
 Chtablishiiiont. an the Superiiiteiuk'iit 
 admits, n .•»iii^!t' ro-iin in which judiiing 
 I'V my foi'liri<rs. (I saw no thi rmiunctcr 
 to r«!fer to) the temjn'rature could hr 
 i,'ii-.od a))Ove 5<> , while no siii-geon 
 wi'uld ever dit-am of jiuttini; a sinular 
 case of wouiKled throat in a lower toin 
 jierature than 75 or Sc . {lartii-ularly 
 when the breathing Jiad io hv eari-ieil 
 on liy the miorlure in tlu- 'ln-oat ; yi^u 
 will luider^staiid that in -ueh ear>es the 
 air has; to t'nt».j- the luniks without the 
 iitnetit of the warming and moiisieniny 
 wliieh i1 \\ouId tret in jtH.-sinu: t!ifoiiiri> 
 tlie nioutli or nojse ; the whole Asylum 
 eoiihl not at!'ov«] such a room ! l'>en, 
 tliat into wni(d) at niy urirent renion 
 straiice lliey renu^ved lier, and whii ii 
 .Dr, WorkTuan eonsiideied a liot rocuii, 
 wa.- far too eold and dry. 
 
 Ml- B. But do >oi; think that this hfld 
 anvthiniX ( > do wilh the fatal result ? 
 
 t>r. C! Undoubtedly it had, the Lrirl'- 
 death was caused, a< the j-ost Wtc/tt?'' 
 elearlv shewed, in a irreat iJieaHure, if 
 not -olely by inflammation of lite 
 lungs, and that intlammalion wa^ ag 
 trravated by tlie miserable ari'ange- 
 meriis of tlii< Asylum, whieh costs tlie 
 Piovince so mueh money! 
 
 Mr. B. But, 1 [uxsume .--he would 
 have died under any eireumstame>? 
 
 Dr, C. I do not thiidc it at all 
 eertain that she would, had siie re- 
 eeived [uoper treatment; I mean, if 
 she had ))een kept m a sutRciently 
 warm and moist atmosphere and above 
 all absolutely prevented from ispeaking. 
 
 .\Ir B. Dr. Workman stated, that at 
 your request, he removed her into a 
 room which he was afi-aid was too hot. 
 
 Dr. C. Dr. Workman testified that I 
 was often in this so called hot room. 1 
 amconvineed that it was far foo eold for 
 pueha case, and, what was a still more 
 serious objection to it, the air was far 
 too dry. in spite of the miserable at 
 tempi made to keep it moist with a i)ail 
 of tepid water.which was all that I could 
 
 get them to do; 1 reiterate my opin 
 ioii, thai .NIary lioyd .-ume to liei- death 
 fr(jm the in-'UtHi-iciii y of r.iie mean< in 
 the Asylum, for treatinir. any ease ot 
 si tuple brotichitis. 1 iioj.r tJie new 
 ho-;pifal> a'i;u bed to the building ntay 
 atVoid sii'h iiif-ans, ImiI Dr. \Vorknuin 
 toi'd me that tlii* rooin was tin- ojily 
 Kuitabit; OM'- he had :i! the tim*-. 
 
 Mr. ]?. Tlie wijrd '• piiui>rnng," whli h 
 you U'ied io yoiir l<-tter, lui> roused Dr. 
 Wi'tkioan's wrath. lfo^•,■ was this 
 ■ pinioning done f 
 
 T»r. (\ 1 am sorry that I used (he word 
 a>; it >eems otb hsive to Hr. Workmati, 
 I ought. |)<.rhaps, to have preferred 
 the tnore delicate tenn ■ resti-airied.'' 
 I; was dotie as lu; eorfeetly deseribes, 
 by a stiiV leathern tnutt', which a few 
 davf befu'e her death was (hanged for 
 one of (diam^'is leather. Ilowver, J 
 think tin .ip])aratu.s an im]U'ovement 
 on Uuiold -^irait waistet>atof nindhouM'Sj 
 and 1 told I>i'. Woi'kman so. 
 
 Mr. Ii. One would suppose iVoui 
 what Dr. Wot kmati Hay;« abora the 
 .-ol'iness (>f ihe leather, th.-il he thitdt.s 
 his patients iiave eoine to like it. I don't 
 know whtiher the bow.strinii i>v wl ieh 
 tlie victim^ ot Eastern despotism arc 
 strangled, ir^ a whit more acee])tabh to 
 (hem,lieeau-e it is madf of'silk instead of 
 hemi». Bui, tell me l)oetor, when Dr. 
 W(irkman objected to loosening the 
 'j:\v\'> haiid.j on the i^round that she- 
 would )>ut th-'.m to her thioat, what you 
 eould have meant b}' saying " What if 
 she does V ' Is tliis reallv true ? 
 
 Dr. C. Perfeetly H'ue. ' 
 
 Mr. B. And wliat did vou mean by 
 it ? 
 
 Dr. C. You will understaiid that at 
 that time all hope of the wound healing 
 by the '-first intention' haviuirbeen ^iv- 
 en up, the stitches htui been i-emoved 
 from the front of the wound to prevent 
 sutfocatiiui. 8he was, as I told you,, 
 tneathing through the aperture thus 
 made almost exclusively, it followed, as 
 a matter of course, that evei> if she put 
 her fingers to the opening and widened 
 it ever so much, no liarm eould be done y 
 
17 
 
 it would not ntard tlic hoaliiii,' by ilic 
 " hCH'Oinl intoiitiuti," shf would have 
 breathi'd all the dkh' t'recly, and sIm' 
 would havo Ih'cii abU' in this way to 
 alia}" the aiiiioyintr itching wliiidi at- 
 tends all su|))>iiratint; wounds 1 
 nn^'iitiuiied all this very fully fo J)i'. 
 VVoi-kiuan at ihi- the tinio, 
 
 Mr. ]j. Indeed I But it Avasijuito like 
 him to tori^et it whoii it suited }tis 
 purpose Id do ho. His memory is re 
 niarkahly eon ven lent. 
 
 Dv C. It was I'roni jiily tin- the poor 
 sutterer and at her re(iuest,11iat I asked 
 Di'. AVorknian to do this. 
 
 Mr. ii. 1 uiidei>taiid, and 1 atii glad 
 that you havo so eloarly ex]»lained the 
 matter, for, as Ih Workman put it. the 
 story told very mueli atrainst yoii. ( )idy. 
 from what I know of you, J think you 
 would he the very last man to he jfuilfv 
 of atiythinji like cruelty, I see that 
 even Dr. Workman himself, who brings 
 or rather, according to liis iiahit, in- 
 sinuates tlii.s charge, said at the in(jue>t 
 " that l)r. Camphtdl wasunifornily kind 
 and solieitous for the girl- welfare. " 
 
 I>r. C. He only does ine justice there. 
 But, let me ask you Mr. Blank, as a 
 lawyer, whether the Coroner wa.s 
 justified in taking down as evideiue 
 all this talk of the poor girl, not as 1 
 said before, that I care the least about 
 it myself, but it has been very \u\- 
 })leasant for my family to liave all 
 these delicate matters paraded before 
 the public, ainl made the town talk. 
 
 Mr, B. A Coroner's inquest is not a 
 judicial trial, but merely an enquiry, 
 and Coroners generally do pretty 
 nearly as they please as to what they 
 put down as evidence. Of course, such 
 delusions as the girl gave utterance to, 
 reported at second hand,are no evidence 
 at all. They were not under oath; 1 
 mean that though the witnesses were 
 sworn, the party whose language was 
 re}K>rted was not. Such so called evi- 
 dence is what we lawyers designate 
 mere hearsay, and would not be ad- 
 missible, even if the person making the 
 reported statements were perfectly 
 
 sane. In the [iresent case, to call these 
 statements evidence, is absurd. I cer- 
 tainly never heard of a lunatii beint; 
 allowed to testify in a witness bo.x, 
 even under oath. If the Coroner had 
 taken this evidence in order to as 
 certain the state of the girl s mind, he 
 uonid have been quite right, but it 
 wa- not n^-eived in this way. the in- 
 sanity had l)een alttady fully [)roved, 
 and these statements sliould not have 
 l>een |>ublished, more especially as 
 there wa^ nol the slightest intention of 
 founding a criminal charge upon it. 
 A ('on>nercan .'dlow the publicatioii of 
 su'di evidence, only at tiie risk of .•tn 
 action against liini for defamafioi» of 
 tharafter. 
 
 ] >r. ( •. Th'it is exactly what 1 th*>ught, 
 although, so far as the iiujuest was 
 eoncerned, I had no obje<^tion ti> the 
 • evidence " being rectMVed. Aiul 
 with reference to a criminal charge, 
 Ih-. Hallowell in a curious b'tter 
 he wrote tt) the TidiVjraph. hinted 
 that if it had not been for him the jury 
 might have l»rought a criminal charge 
 .•igainsi me. 
 
 Mr. B. Then, if as he alleges, he 
 did this out of favor to 3-011. tlien he 
 acted most illegally and re]»rehcnsi- 
 bly. Then I wonder \'0U did not in your 
 li'tter,say a little more ofDr.HallowelPi* 
 '■ intelligent'' jury and their verdict. 
 
 Dr. C. What do you object to in it? 
 
 ^Ir. B. If the insanity of the decea.s- 
 ed was established, as it was by the 
 evidence of Dr. Workman and yourself; 
 the jury had no right to return a ver- 
 dict of '/Wo de. se,'' which means cri- 
 minal deliberate suicide; besides, 
 what did they mean by temporar}' 
 insanity ? 
 
 Dr. C. That is more than I can toll. 
 How they ascertained that the insanity 
 would not be pennanent had the girl 
 lived, I am at a loss to imagine. 
 
 Mr. B. That is not exactly the point ; a 
 veMict of " temporary msanity " is usu- 
 ally rendered in ca*»es of suicide when 
 the insanity is not proven at all, but 
 merely inferred from the fact of sui- 
 
18 
 
 (•idc ; heiuj^ u more- IWrmula used to 
 s<M>th«' tli«' fet'lirijLjH of reliitivc. In 
 the |)re.soiit liise 1 tunc} the Jury iiiiiHt 
 have lueant to insiiuiute that tlie injury 
 whieh Mary Jioyl inrticted upon fier- 
 !S»''t', and \vhi( h led to her th>:ilh, was 
 done mihUt the exeitcinent of in- 
 hvnity merely temporary, eaused hy 
 feomethin^ wroni^ that you had done to 
 tier. I'erhajis the\- wanted tu express 
 iheiropinion that tfie insanity had oidy 
 existed at ihr time she wcnmcU'd her- 
 self, b.il had passed ott' alter slie 
 reaehed the Asyhim, and that slie was 
 qiiite sane when she nuuJe th*^ state- 
 ments the nurses report. 
 
 Dr. C I'i'oh:;t>ly tliat may have been 
 what thfy meant to insinuate ; even 
 thoutjh sueh a vcrdiet wouhl have heen 
 in direct oj)position to the profe.ssi(mal 
 testimony the\- had heard. 
 
 Mr. B. I see that l>r. Workinan as 
 usual has vaeillated as to tlie question 
 of the in.sanity of the j^irl — when he 
 wanted to give weiglit to any cJiarj^o 
 against you, he appeared to loan to 
 tlio view that she was quite sane 
 enough to make the accusation — and 
 when he wanted to justify his own 
 treatment of her then her insanity was 
 according to him beyond all doubt. 
 
 Dr. ('. He certainly seems to quality 
 his opinion in his letter very dexter- 
 ously. 
 
 Mr. B. The evidence of the state of 
 JlliU'y Boyd's mind involves Dr. Work- 
 man in this dilemma : if she was sane 
 why was she "pinioned" to the last, and 
 her father prevented from seeing her '/ 
 If she was insane, why did Dr. 
 Workman bring forward his nurses to 
 the inquest to report her ravings ? 
 
 Dr. C. Ih: Workman's evidence to 
 the jury, whatever he may try to 
 make out since, was no doubt clear 
 enough as to the insanity. 
 
 Mr. B. Then the Coroner should not 
 have accepte<i such a verdict from his 
 " intelligent " jury in the face of the 
 evidence of two experts, Dr. Workman 
 and yourself, who were paid by the 
 public for their professional opinions 
 
 on this point of insanity. Besides [ 
 always thought r»r. llallowell wasi a 
 friend <d' vo.irs, and not an enemy as 
 his i;onduet at this inquest would seem 
 to indieat''. 
 
 Dr. (J. I thought so too , we were at 
 eoliege in Edinburgh together, nearly 
 forty years ago, and have remained on 
 cordial terms ever since, for though 
 since 1 abandoned the errors of the 
 school in which we were l)oth brought 
 up,I have beeri treated with ihegreatest 
 discourtesy by many of those whom I 
 ustid to meet in consultation, and to 
 liold fiiendly intercourse wiLh,yet there 
 has been no apparent alteration in 
 my relations witii Dr. Hallowell. 
 
 Mr. B. Perhaps he did not intend X^t 
 wrong you, but his mind has lately lost 
 a gofxl deal of its vigoi", and 1 daresay 
 he hiwl not firmness ofcharacter enough 
 to prevent him.solf being made a tool of, 
 even against one whom he called his 
 oldest friend in Toronto. Poor old 
 llallowell, it »nay be he is more to bo 
 pitied than blamed. 
 
 Dr. C Yes, and I sincerely hope for 
 the sake of his family that his strange 
 mismanagement of this in<[uest may 
 not lejwl to the revocation of his com- 
 mission as Coroner. 
 
 Mr. B. If what I have heard be true, 
 I don't know but it may. I had almost 
 forgotten it, but I have been told that 
 before Dr. Hallowell handed to the 
 Telegraph the evidence taken at the 
 inquest, he underlined, so as io give 
 them additional force, such passages in 
 the evidence as he fancietl would tell 
 against j-ou.* 
 
 Dr. C. It is haiil to believe that he 
 
 * Since this conversation was held, the origi- 
 nal tiepusitioni! taken down at the inquest, 
 hAve been examined in the office of the Ceanty 
 Crown Attorney, and a certified copy of the whole 
 evidence procured. It was there ascertained that 
 Mr. B. had been correctly informed, and that such 
 passages as could be made to bear most unfaTor> 
 ably upon Dr. Campbell, had been underlined by 
 the Coroner ! 
 
 This, of itself, is evidence enough of the length 
 to which Dr. Hallowell was prepared to stretch 
 his brief authority, to forward the designs of his 
 fellow -conspirators. 
 
in 
 
 would U' cu])al'le ol' siuh malic r. he- 
 siilo", it sceiDS to nu; that it must liuvt 
 Ikicii an illej^al a»t — yuu know more 
 »lw>nt thoii" I»nsill0^l^< tluui I <lo ; lias i\ 
 ("oioner a ri^ht to tamper in any way 
 with th*' written evidence" as lie lia'l 
 taUon it down at an inquest ? 
 
 Mr. 15 Of course he has n >t. Hut 
 ]»o>sihly he may have matle lhc>e 
 underlinin^sat the inquest, as he wrote 
 down the evidence. .Should this he 
 the caso, it only makes the matter 
 woi-se, as shewiuji^ tlmt while in ;i 
 i/mi.si judicial capacity, he lia<l iium- 
 out uf his way to tavor the foregone 
 comdusioM of hrin^ing 3'ou.and throuirh 
 you, ITonKeopathy, into j)ublic con- 
 tempt, and, what is a far more serious 
 impropriety, actually |)rejudt(ed the 
 case that he was sitting: to invesliiiate 
 
 Dr. C. Hut Dr. Ilallowell was th<' hist 
 man I should have thoui^ht would have 
 Joined in a comhinalion to injure my 
 J»rofes^ional or private <diaracter. 
 
 Mr. B. Cemihination, do you call it? 
 You draw it rather mild Doctoi- ! Give 
 it at once its right nan^e and call it a 
 " CONSPIRACV." Cannot you sec clearly, 
 we outsidei's <lo at all events, that if 
 you had not hoen President of the 
 Homa>oi)athic Medical Board, there 
 would have been none of this fu.ss. 
 
 Dr. C. You may be right, bui I am 
 unwilling to think that members of a 
 learned profession would, from mere 
 hostility to a S3^stem of thei-apeutie.^, 
 differing little from theirowji, as theirs 
 has lately been modifier, and again.st 
 their clear convietiois, unju.stly and 
 in.sidiously assail a member of that 
 profession, when they knew that they 
 agreed with him on the main points of 
 the case. 
 
 Mr. B. There yo" are quite mis- 
 taken. They do not look upon you as 
 belonging any longer to the same pro- 
 fession. Have you forgotten how tliey 
 treated you at the meeting of the 
 Medical Council two years ago? They 
 are all the more bitter against you 
 because you held so prominent a 
 position among them before 3-0U de- 
 
 serted their cauiii. They think that 
 you are fair game, and that anything 
 they can do to injure you and your 
 school is quite lawful. The mere men- 
 tion of ' Homceopathy " seems to act 
 upon them much in the same way that 
 a red rag does upon a bull, it puts 
 them in a frenzy of r:ige at once. 
 
 Dr. C. They surely admit that my 
 iiicfliral education has been quite iw 
 complete as theirs. 
 
 .Mr. H. Of course, they cannot <leny 
 that, so thev sav nothing about it. 
 
 Di". C. My experience too. is probab- 
 ly as extensive a> that of any one of 
 them. 
 
 .Ml'. H. There :\ga in you are out. Dr. 
 
 Workman says that he ha.«tcnt u]»more 
 
 dead bodies of men and womcti than 
 
 ^any meilical ju-actitioner m the city. ' 
 
 Dr. C. Thatisquite possible; though 
 one would hardly liave expecttNl that 
 Dr. Workman would have boasted of 
 the Irequoncy of the opportunities 
 which the fatal results of his treatment 
 atioi-ded hini, of inspecting his patients 
 in his -'Mortuary." 
 
 Mr. B. Talking of this " mortuary," 
 Dr. Workman lets out in his letter a 
 very renuarkable fact of which 1 see he 
 matle no mention when giving his 
 evidence, nor did the other medical men 
 when giving theirs. It appears that he 
 with three others, all professional oppo- 
 nentsof yours, (for Dr. Hallowell could 
 have been present only in his private ca- 
 pacity as a medical man.his coroner's 
 court not being yet organised,) made a 
 ^'careful atul clou examination of tfieexter- 
 tuil sexual parts of the deceased." Was any 
 intimation given to you (employed as 
 you were and paid ijy the pxiblic for 
 your professional opinion) that such 
 examination had taken r.iace ? 
 
 Dr. C. None whatever. I knew no- 
 thing of this most unusual secret ex- 
 amination until Dr. "Workman's letter 
 divulged it. 
 
 Mr. B. Then 1 must say that it W4S 
 A most unauthorised, illegal and ini- 
 quitous proceeding I Who ever heard 
 
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 befor*' of such a tajn|Kni?iif with a hody 
 that Avas to be tlie >iilijoct of an iii(jiio'<t. 
 You must now soo that 1 was right in 
 my UHc of the word " consmkacv.' 
 Here was the initiatory step of the pro- 
 cess by whicli tliey hojied to disirraoe 
 the President of the lIonKeopatliie 
 Medical lioard and tli)-0iii;'h him, hriiii:; 
 all his school into puhlir conterupT. 
 
 Dr. C. I was quite shcK-ked lo ieani 
 that any r.^s]teciabK! nusdical man could 
 have lent his cuuiitenanee ti> such ini- 
 quity. 
 
 Mr. J3. Dr. Workman ask^ you to 
 account for the disapj)earan(e of the 
 signs of virL'inity in the l"Mly of 
 Mary Boyd when ins])ected at lliis 
 "caucus ' meeting of the (onsjiira 
 tors. 
 
 Dr. C. It is no business of mine to do 
 so. I own that I am quite at a loss 
 to account for this disappearance, and 
 such disappearance there certainly 
 was, or to be quite coir«'ct, there was a 
 very marked iliiniuution ofdisfinctness of 
 tl si^ns by wluch virginity is usually 
 recognized wlien I saw the bo<]yat the 
 legal post mortem on the seco)uJ day of th»' 
 inquest, compared to tliat which they 
 had presented during life. This I dis- 
 tinctlj' told the jury. Xot that in my 
 opinion, it had the least bearingon the 
 case ; but 1 was anxious to vindicate the 
 good name of a UKxIest and estim- 
 able young woman, whom I considered 
 to he wrongfully accused of looseness 
 t»f conduct. 
 
 Mr. B You told the jury and repeat- 
 ed in your lett<'r that you believed that 
 this young woman lived and died per- 
 fectly pure. 
 
 Dr. C. I did. 1 most firndy believe 
 that 1 was justified in doing so, I 
 speak on this point with as great a 
 degree of confidence as imy man wh(^» 
 values his reputation as a medical 
 jiirist can venture to do. 
 
 Mr. B. And why did not the medi- 
 cal men, who made the post mortem, 
 examination, ccmtirm your opinion ? 
 
 Dr. C The medical witnesses said 
 they found the hymen " almost oblitera- 
 
 ted.' They even goon to state that they 
 do not thiiik this obliteration an in 
 variahie juark of the absence t>f vir- 
 ginity; yet they wanted to give the 
 jury the i(lea that somehow or other 
 something very Avrong must have been 
 ilone to ihe girl, I sup])ose because she 
 had not bet-n under the care of one of 
 their .sehool. 
 
 ^Ir. H. Yes. thevi's the trouble. 
 
 Dr. C But if the o})iiiion they gave 
 as t(; her virginity was liased on the 
 apj)earance whi<-h the parts presented 
 on the second (\ay of the iiu{uest, when 
 the legal post vinrtein was made. 1 can- 
 not blame tluMU for not speaking more 
 decidedly. The majority of medical 
 men would })robably have agreed with 
 them. But these medical witnesses 
 took good care not to lot the jury know 
 that they had ever !nade any other 
 examination of the organs in question. 
 
 ilr. B. How do you account for the 
 change that must have taken ])lace in 
 the parts, from the time you made the 
 examination during life, until j'ou saw 
 the b<Kly in the "mortuary?" It surely 
 cannot be possible that any of the Asy- 
 lum peo])le, however willing tliej- might 
 be to aid a eon.spiracy against you, could 
 be so diabolically wicked as to do so by 
 tantpering with the dead body? 
 
 l>r. C. The "evidences" in question 
 are only Xoo easily destroyed in the liv- 
 ing ; but they are still more readily ef- 
 faced in the dead. The curiosity of 
 the attendants, and the " careful and 
 close," but most irregular, or I should 
 call it clandestine examination of the 
 more educated investigators, doubtless 
 rendered these " evidences " much less 
 perceptible. 
 
 Mr.B. I dare say such repeated finger- 
 ings may have worn the signs away, 
 or, at all events, rendered them less 
 distinct ? 
 
 Dr. C. Something had most certain- 
 ly been done ; I can't exactly say what. 
 It is not for me to account for all that 
 is done in the Asylum " mortuary." 
 There were two peculiarities that par- 
 ticularly struck me. 
 
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 Mr. B. What were these ? 
 
 Dr. (!. Thf oxteniJil opening, no 
 matter how large it may he, or how 
 greatly or frcciuently it may have heen 
 dilated at any pi*evious time, is closed 
 in the living; and it rciaaius closed in 
 the untouched deail. from the natural 
 elasticity which the parti* had dui-ing 
 life But here, instead of the usual 
 ap])roximated labia presenting a closed, 
 or, at all events, ;i long-elliptical aj) 
 ])earanee, the oi-itice was perfectly cir 
 oiilar. This ct>ndition could only have 
 arisen from the parts having been di- 
 lated to that sliape after <leath had 
 destroyed the elasticity and resiliency 
 which the tissues ahvavs have durinir 
 life. Besides this, there was a small abra 
 jsion of the e])idt;rmis of the external 
 parts, which could not. from its aji- 
 pearance, have been done during life : 
 but showed thai the parts had under 
 gone some pretty rough handling after 
 death. It is tor Dr. Workman, and 
 not forme, toexplain how these condi- 
 tions were brought about. I remarked 
 to the medical men at the post mortem, 
 and subsequently to the jury, that I 
 had never before seen those organs 
 j>resent the appearance which they 
 did. 
 
 Mr B. I suppose then, that you 
 are quite ])repared to gratify T)r. Woik 
 man's curiosity as to where the disap- 
 pearanee of these signs took place? 
 
 Dr. 0. 1 am. I clearly and dis- 
 tinctly assert that the signs of virginity 
 in the body of Mary Boyd were greatly 
 damaged, or, as the medical witnesses 
 said, " almost obliterated," in the Pro- 
 vincial Lunatic Asylum. I hope that 
 Dr. Workman will speedily a.scertain 
 how it was done. 
 
 Mr. B. But the question, after all. 
 is not whether she retained her", ir- 
 ginity, but whether she was pregnant 
 at the time of her death, as gome of 
 the nurses report her t^> have said . or 
 whether a miscarriage might not have 
 taken place, as surmised from the re- 
 port of others of the nurses as to her 
 ravings ? 
 
 Dr C. The question of her preg- 
 nancy at the time of her death was at 
 once and for ever ]»ut to rest l»y the 
 examination of the womb at the jiost 
 mortem. 
 
 Mr. h. How ? 
 
 Dr. C. There was neither ftetus nor 
 ovum in il , but. on the other hand, a 
 • lysmeiionha'al membrane. 
 
 Mr. B. 1 <lo not understand all this. 
 I sU[ipose by fietus or ovum, you mean 
 thai there was nochnd.noreven the be- 
 ginning of a child , but what is a r\y-i- 
 menon'haal membrane ? 
 
 r>r. C. It is a slued or skin of 
 plastic lymph formed in the wonib of 
 women who, at theii' menstrual pericHl, 
 siilfer from difficult or painful menstru- 
 ation, which we call dysmenorrhteajand 
 which is always iiecom]ianied by in- 
 t1ainmati(jn more or less acute. 
 It is eonsidered by Dewees, Meigs, 
 Deninan, Cliuj-chill, TJyan, and indeed 
 by all obst^^trieal writers, to be an al- 
 most invariable indication of absolute 
 sterility: «<o that it is not only im]>os- 
 silile that deceased could, at her death, 
 have l)een pregnant, but exti'emely 
 improbable that even if she had sur- 
 vive<l. shi? could evei' have become so. 
 
 Mr. B. And how waj< it evident that 
 she ha<l vifit been jiregnant before? 
 
 Dr. C There is no means of abso- 
 lutely proving this, with refer- 
 ence to any very remote perio<l,but as 
 to any comparatively recent period, 
 such .'Js a month or two, we have an 
 almost absolute certainty Even if we 
 should dirter from nearly all ob.stetri- 
 cal writers iu looking on the ju-esence 
 of ihe dysinenorrhteal membrane as 
 conclusive evidence of absolute ajid 
 permanent sterility in the individual 
 in whom it is formed, it is at least de- 
 cisive i)roof of the imjtossibillty of preg- 
 nancy having existed for at least fwo 
 months previously and that is the very 
 longest time alleged in this case. 
 
 Mr. B. How does this membrane 
 establish the impossibility of pregnan- 
 cy having existed within two mouths? 
 
 Dr. C. By showing that her last 
 
oo 
 
 period must have been atteiidod with 
 dysmenorrhoeal suffering. Avith whith 
 either pregnancy or u recent miscar- 
 riage is, us I told you, entirely incom- 
 patible. 
 
 Mr. B. I)id the medical men explain 
 all this to the jury ? 
 
 Dr. C. Not in my hearing. 
 
 Mr. B. Why then, did you not get 
 the Coroner to set this point at rest 
 at once, by a.^king thorn the neeessi'.ry 
 questions? 
 
 Dr. C Because, at the time that ih<'se 
 witnesses were examined, nothing had 
 come up WMth reference to pregnane}-, 
 hut the Coronei- allowed them to 
 wander out df th''ir way. to read a 
 homily to the jury on tlic inipro 
 pricty of using galvanism as an ennnen- 
 agogue. 
 
 Mr. B. What is an emmenagogue ? 
 That is rather a ■• jaw-hreaker.'" 
 
 Dr. C It is a medicine sM])poscd to 
 have the otfect <»f aiding menstruation. 
 I j-av. '' supposed " for few expei-icnced 
 physicians ot' uny school have mii<-l: 
 belief in the efficacy of such medi<ines. 
 The uterus tiot being an elimiaaling 
 organ, like the liver, skin, kidneys, 
 dtc, it is not easy to direct the action 
 of an}' <lrug to it. It i> UMiully by 
 irritating the adjacent bowel h}' drastic 
 purgatives such as Aloes, that medical 
 nven have tried to bring on llic natui'al 
 discharge from the wotuI*. 
 
 Mr. B. But, Avhat aboul the u:c of 
 i^alvanism, whieh was censured a** su 
 
 im 
 
 iproper f 
 
 Ih'. C. Used as explained to Dr. Work- 
 tnan by me, il is by fjir the niiist elVei - 
 luul ennnmuigogue that has ye( been 
 discovered, besides lieing <juite harm- 
 less, and not racking the system like the 
 drastic drugs 1 told you were employed 
 by the okl s(di»x)l for the same purpose, 
 and can do no jwssible injury. 
 
 Mr B. But does it not give tJie ner 
 vous system u consitierable shock ? 
 
 Dr. C. h is attended with no shock 
 whatever, wln-n properly used. It is 
 rather a continuous gentle current, the 
 action of whieh is scarcely, if at all per- 
 
 ceptible, the slightsensatiou felt being 
 rather agreeable than otherwise. I 
 may add, that it is now extensively 
 used in both EurojK^ and the United 
 tStates by most distinguished medical 
 men of the .same scliool a.s those 
 who censure<l its use, but who.only dis- 
 played their ignorance and j)rejudice 
 by so doing. 
 
 Mr. B. But perhaj)s they did not 
 mean that it was improper in general, 
 but only in this special instance ; for 
 the question, as I u-ide stand it, seems 
 to turn u]ion the ])oint of whether you 
 were dealing with a ease of " suppres- 
 sion." oroneof '(liftlcult menstruation." 
 IVrhaps a doubt is intimated as to 
 whether you knew the difference be- 
 tween the two? 
 
 Dr. C. I certainly ought l»y this 
 time to be able to distinguish between 
 two conditions so very different. 
 
 Mr. B. Not a doubt of it. I sup- 
 ])o.se that the most strenuous opponent of 
 lloni(eo[iathy wonM not hesitate to 
 allow tli.'it you are competent to dis- 
 tinguish between a case of amenorrhcer 
 and one of dysmenorrlnea, and would 
 probably be inclined to attaeh quite 
 as much weight to your diagnosis of 
 any disease as to Dr. Workman's ? 
 
 i)r. C. Possibly he might. 
 
 Mr. B. You have been, I think you 
 ome told me nearl} forty years uinn 
 teruptcdly engaged in active jirac- 
 liec, while J know that Dr. Workman 
 diverted his attention from th*' legiti 
 mate exercise of his j)rofcssion, while 
 he Avas working himself into his pre- 
 sent ))osition, by writing political squil-s 
 in defence of Mr. Hincks ; and when 
 engaged in the philosophical occupa- 
 tion of selling tenpenny nails. 
 
 Dr. ('. I have always looked upon 
 Dr. Workman as a man of great ability, 
 and I dunt think it right to bring his 
 former occupations again.st him. »So 
 come back to what we were speaking 
 about. 
 
 Mr. B. It was about the amenorrhoea 
 or dysmenorrhcBa question. 
 
 Dr C Dr. Workman sars that 1 
 
made no objection to liit> «ivideii<,o alter 
 I ha«l r^ad it at the inquest. The rea- 
 fcion w)iy I did not, is plain. 1 considered 
 it qiijio in*elevan( to tht- matter at is- 
 Hue, which wap the cauf-ie of the girl's 
 death, to enter into any disquisition 
 as to her leniale ailments. Hut I told 
 Dr Workman, heforc I Im-ught the 
 Hatiei.t to flic Asylum, that -she had 
 sufteved fVom menstrual difficult}- at 
 her last [jenod : and that I considered it 
 very impo. taut for Jiin\ to look (nit for 
 her next, as it W(nild in ail ]'ro 
 habilit\ he attended by an agi^ravation 
 of her mental in/ubles." i may say at 
 the same time that l)r. Workman heard 
 and mad(^ no objection to my evidence, 
 in '.vhicli 1 stated to tin- jury, a.-^ shown 
 in tJie printed ri>port, that the men- 
 strual ilischarge ha<l come on before I 
 used the galvatiivin. and tliat conse 
 queiiily it could not l)e a case of amen 
 orrhcBa. 
 
 Mr. B. Dr. Workman must liave 
 wilfully kept this (.'Ut of view to dani- 
 age yon, wliei; ho made thesuppositior; 
 a^ to the possibility of lu-egnancy ex- 
 isting at the lime? 
 
 IV, C. It is not very likely that if 
 I had used the galvanism for an im 
 pri'i'Cr piirj)Ose. lliat I shouhi have 
 (iescribe<l to luni the waj' in wlm h I 
 had u.sed it, as lie acknowledged I did, 
 and have .strongly reeommended him to 
 try it at her next j>erind, as 1 eonsidered 
 if had done her :rnod at the one sin liad 
 jdsL got over. 1 never for a moment 
 imagined that it was from iiitioraner 
 that Dr. Wcu'kman rtjfrained from ex 
 pressing his diagnosis of the ease. 
 
 Mr. B. Ves I see that Dr. Work 
 man, with his usual eraftijuiss, declines 
 to -identify himself with the views of 
 either jiarty.' This :n tiially means 
 that he had not madi> up his miiid as 
 to what n^all}- wa.s the matter witli 
 the girl and that. 1 don't .it all believe. 
 
 ]>r C He a^ain alleges that at 
 the Inquest, I h>oked upon the ease as 
 one of amenorrlHe.'i, aii<l I hav( only 
 tojKiiut to my .sworn testimony, < vcn as 
 
 reported b}- tin' TH>ijni.}>h. to pi-ove 
 that I did not. 
 
 Mr. B. But I set that I>r. Workman 
 says that both Di-s. Richardson and 
 Berryman. who appear to agree with 
 you in thinking this to have been a 
 oa*ie of dysmenorrlirea. nevertheless 
 condemn the use of galvanism in such 
 a case as improper? 
 
 Dr. ('. They call its use im])roper 
 on two grounds: first, that it was in- 
 decent ; next, that it was injudicious. 
 
 Mr. B. What as to its heiim inde- 
 cent? 
 
 Dr. C. It is suroly far less s(^ as u 
 mode of cure for dysmeinu-rha'a, as 
 involving less ex])osure. than that hy 
 bougies recommended by thft celebrated 
 Dr. Melntosh. and very geuerally used 
 by ])hysicians of the soliool to whieh 
 those irenilemen belonir. Something 
 must be done to relieve those who suf- 
 fer from this mo-t distressingeonditiou. 
 They cannot t'C allowed to go r)n suffer- 
 ing as they generally do, from Neu- 
 ralgia. Hypoehondriasis.or other forius 
 of s(n-ere nervous trouble and ultima- 
 tely run the risk of .Irifting nilo in- 
 saiiit}- as this pitor it,\\'\ did. 
 Until a suttieii-nt mnnl'er of com- 
 ]>etent female jdiysieians ean be ob- 
 taimrd, ladie* will W, obliireil lo '(cek 
 relief from medical men. even if it 
 sliould involve soiin' little siU'iitiee of 
 their feelings. And we should always 
 bear in mind that "!<' the ]>ure all 
 things are pu •«. 
 
 .Mr. H. What ai'oiii its injudieiitus- 
 !n-s ■' 
 
 Dr. C. 1 must be eontint tu remain 
 (jf a diifeivnl opinion fnun the medieal 
 witnesses as to the eftieai'V of ;^"alvan- 
 ism in dysnienorrh'ea. Thev have 
 never tri<Ml ii, and <' pnon think it 
 like'\- to be lioth injurious and luef 
 rectual. 1, who have used it often, am 
 highly satisfied wilh its etVeets. Be- 
 si<ies, there i"* the fact, which eaimot 
 l»e got over, tl;at its use in this case 
 tm*' followed by benefit. Yon will un- 
 ilersland that the application whieh 
 throuiihout this case has, for convenience 
 
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 hccTi call<(l i,'alvinii*m, i.^ now moropri) 
 jiei'lv kitowM as Karadizatiou, su oalltd 
 afiev iho (lif tiiiii'uijjlio.i plulosophi'i- who 
 fii>(, sUi;jj;(^stt.Mt tills nio»!itjralion()t'(>r.iirj 
 ary ijcalvani.sm. The pt^^ailar vU-n. wlucli 
 tlio moilical witiiossus sft-meil t' -huix-. 
 is, that i>alvanisiu is always ai. t>x<it- 
 anf ; \v-h<Mvas. when judii'iously ap- 
 plied, it is eqiiall}^ erteotual as a seda- 
 tive. No more speedy i»'iiK'<ly has yt 
 hceu i'oiiud in Hypora-sthesia ^lyalgia, 
 and other I'ornis oT Xcnvali;!!!, all ut 
 which are aueii'ltd nitii redundani 
 utM-ve art ion. 
 
 Mr. B. Thoy dou't, in tart, scrm to 
 kn.)\v aaylhinj^at ail al-oiu this form oi' 
 i;alvariisin, whitdi, n overt ho less, liiry 
 w ore so ready to coiKleiun ? 
 
 Dr. ('. So it aj.ipears; but. tor iny 
 part. J shall roiitiniic to iisr this form 
 of galvanism or rather Faradizatioii 
 us a remedy both in ameiiorrha-a and 
 i!i dysmoiioiTh*a. The mode oi nsiiig 
 it in these two conditions is of (:oiir.se 
 quite ditt'erent, hut 1 am satisfied that 
 it is equally etfeottial in both, and 
 I don't think that I shiill h«i driven to 
 adopt the suggestion kindly made to 
 me at the inrjuest ly I>r, Berryman. 
 that 1 should treat rny next ease of 
 dysmenorrlitea by hlerdingat thearm ! 
 
 Mr. B. Now let as cooie to Dr. 
 Workman's "if." He says, "if there 
 was '■ a shadow of suspicion of pregnancy " 
 when you used this galvanism, that you are 
 a criminal abortionist, and ought to be 
 with Notman and o^her destroyers of life. 
 
 Dr. C. That is just where 1 meet him . 
 There was not, as I have repeatedly said . 
 and he perfectly well knew when be made 
 the insinuation, that there was not, and 
 could not have been the alightest shadow of 
 such suspicion in Mary Boyd's case when 1 
 used the galvanism. 
 
 Mr. B. I, who know Dr. Workman, 
 can believe that well enough. He takes 
 care not to say that there was such " sha- 
 dow of suspicion," the contingency being 
 rather obscurely and indistinctly expressed, 
 while the inference intended to be drawn 
 stands conspicuous to all, that Dr. Campbell, 
 according to Dr. Workman, ought to be in 
 
 the Penitentiary. You could easily retort 
 upon him his own peculiar mode of argu 
 men^ and say, ■' if ' Dr. U'nrkman shoul*! 
 assert, which, howi'V'.r, he does not venture 
 directly to Jo, that there 'vas or could have 
 been the shadow of suspjuon of preeuauoy 
 when vou used the galv.aasie. llitjii /}r. 
 WnrkiHu/i (7,s,^v'r^•^ vi iu/omoHS lit ; or, still 
 better, suppose you were tc say — and 
 even thi.s supposition h.'i» far bettor and more 
 probable ^'rounds to st.'uid upun than his 
 against ^'ou — that "if" Dr. Workman having 
 joined in a conspiracy to injure llouio opa- 
 thy by dofaming yuu, tampered witli the 
 dead body of >lary Boyd to give a coloring 
 to the vile plot, then: Instead of boing in 
 charge of the i^rnvineial Lunatic Asylum 
 as Supermteudent, Dr. JosEI'K Wohk- 
 MAN .SHOULD HF IliVISflF PAKEV <U.\KOE 
 Of IN TIJE ProvINOIA!. PeNIIENTIAKY 
 A.S A FEI.ON. 
 
 Taking care thrit the last part of the sen- 
 tence .should be far enough froiu the '' if," 
 to allow the effect of that little word to be- 
 come imperceptible. 
 
 Dr. C. Heeortajniy lays himself open to 
 some such retort, but I would bo very ,«orry 
 to adopt his stylo of controversy. 
 
 Mr. TJ. What about the microscopie 
 examination that was subterjuentiy made 
 by Dr. Workman, at which Dr. Bovell and 
 other.s were present ? 
 
 Dr. C. This, the third post morUm. 
 that was hcjil ou the remains uf this unfor- 
 tunate gill, was almost as informal and ille- 
 gal as the first secret one. 
 
 Mr. B No; I can't admit that; no- 
 tbme that has ever been h«ard of, even 
 connected with coroners' inqu'st.i, and that 
 IS saying a good deal, can approach ia ille- 
 gality that most iniquitous ' caucus" meet- 
 ing of these conspirators against llomaK)- 
 pathy ? 
 
 Dr. C. Your indignation is natural 
 enough, but try to keep calm 1 certainly 
 think it was Dr. Workman's duty to have no- 
 tified me of this examination, knowing what 
 charges he was about to try to found on it 
 against inc. I might then have personally 
 seen what he alleges was there discovered. 
 h is fortunate that a gentleman of Dr, 
 Bovell's well known integrity was present, 
 
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 io that we may believe that something 
 like a fair report has been given of what 
 was been. The only remark I shall make 
 is with reference to the statement of Dr. 
 Workman, that the uterus was twice as 
 larg(i as it should have been. This, unless 
 that organ had like the external parts, been 
 tampered with, is incorrect ; Dr. Richard- 
 son, who is quite as competent an anato- 
 mist as Dr. Workman, testified at the 
 inquest that the uterus was of the normal 
 siae and shape ; I myself saw it at the 
 pctt mortem, and I am of the aame opinion. 
 
 Mr. B. But what after all was found out 
 at this third post mortem f 
 
 Dr. C Nothing but what I most fully ex- 
 pe<?ted would have been found ; and that is, 
 that th« uterus and its appendages were in a 
 state of sub-acute inflammation. The Dys- 
 menorrhceal view of the case, which I have 
 held from the very first, was thus only more 
 fully confirmed. The correctness of my 
 opinion had been already proved to the 
 other medical men by the r^ular, or I 
 should call it, the \ega] post-mortem. 
 
 M, B. This microscopic examination, 
 then after all, threw little, if any, additional 
 light on the case. 
 
 Dr. C. It nevertheless helped to demon- 
 strate the local cause of the excitement of 
 the sexua! feeling that led to the strange delu- 
 sion that got poHsession of tho poor girl's 
 imagination. 
 
 Mr. B. What in the world is this " cor- 
 pus Itileum " that Dr. Workman so mys 
 teriously announces the di.scovery of? 
 
 Dr. 0, I aui afiaid you will say, when I 
 explain this, that il ia a fresh instance ot 
 machiavellian iupHcity for which you seem 
 too ready lo give Dr. Workman credit, 
 He made no .such discovery. The corpus 
 fitteum had been seen by all the medical 
 witnesses in the mortuary, and was fully 
 examined and commeuted on before they 
 gave their evidence. Surely if it could 
 have been made to have the slightest 
 bearing on the points u issuC; or if any 
 deduction unfavourable to me could have 
 been drawn from it, these witnesses would 
 have made ae much out of it as they could? 
 
 Mr. B. No doubt they would, they do 
 
 no> seom to have shewn yoa any special 
 favor. 
 
 Dr. C. No indeed 1 But they well 
 know that the presence of this " corpus 
 luttum " was an evidence only of " ovula- 
 tion " which is merely another name for 
 menstruation. 
 
 Mr. B. Dr. Workman I suppose knew 
 this when he penned the artful allu- 
 sion to it in his letter, leading people to 
 imagine that it was something of immeosa 
 importance which had been freshly brought 
 to light. 
 
 Dr. C. I am afraid he did. 
 
 Mr. B. So then the thing, after all, 
 is a mare's nest of Dr. Workman's, or 
 something worser 
 
 Dr. C. A corpus luteum really and truly 
 amounts to nothing as a proof of any con- 
 dition. Any medical jurist or physiolc^ist 
 will now tell you so. Nevertheless, it has 
 been the subject of keen controversies among 
 these same physiologists and medical jurists. 
 They used to talk a great deal of nonsense 
 about true and false 'corpora lutea.' but 
 more ample and scieutific observation- have 
 (shewn that these bodies are quite unreliable 
 as indications of any thing. It would be 
 worth your while to look up Carpeuter'a 
 Physiology on this point 
 
 Mr. B, But even if this corpus luteurn. 
 amounted to nothing, what did it matter so 
 long as it gave Dr. Workman an oppor- 
 tunity to make a damaging insinuation. 
 
 Dr. C. Wcli I suppose I have settled 
 the " corpus luteum ' question : what next ? 
 
 Mr. B. I want you to tell me a little 
 more about the galvanism, and ! 'W you came 
 to use it in a case which might have been 
 one of sHppregsion of the menses ? 
 
 Dr. C Even if it had it would still have 
 been the proper remedy for that condition,-- 
 but I told Dr. Workman, most distinctly, that 
 the galvanism had not been used until a/ter 
 the menstruation had once begun, ami had 
 again stopped. I testified on oath distinctly to 
 this fact before the jury. Now, as I told 
 you before a case where menstruation has 
 once begun, is certainly not one of Amenor- 
 rhoca whatever else it may bo, and when, 
 as in this case, the interruption was at- 
 tended with pain or straining, it is usually 
 
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 called Dysmenorrhea, that is painful or 
 difficult meDstruation, a coDdition, \vhicb, 
 as [ hare again and again told jou is total- 
 ly incompatible with pregnancy. 
 
 Mr. B. But did not the strange state- 
 ment that the girl made to Mrs. Campbell, 
 lead you to think that there ujigbt be, to 
 say the least, a shadow of, I will not say 
 probability, but even of possibility of that 
 condition existing ? 
 
 Dr. C. Most certainly not, I never for 
 one moment believed the absurd story, 
 that my son had violated her person as 
 she alleged, during her sleep t The fact 
 of her allowing a month to elapse before 
 she told it, of it«elf made it very xruprcb- 
 able , and her retraction of the charge, two 
 hours after she made it, -showed that it 
 must have been a delusion from the first. 
 
 Mr. B. It is the strangest story I ever 
 heard ; you must have been puzzled how to 
 act? 
 
 Dr. C No, for she had told my wife that 
 it was the non-appearance of her monthly 
 illness when it was due, that had led her to 
 think that something had happened to her, 
 which its subsequent appearance in a couple 
 of hours made her see was a mistake. 
 I then knew that the delusion was caused 
 by the mental d'^turbance that often attends 
 difficult menstruation. Next morning when 
 the discharge stopped, the delusion return- 
 ed , she suffered very much and continued 
 to do so until the discharge once more came 
 on after the applicition of the galvanic 
 or rather '* Faradaic " current. 
 
 Mr. B. What other grounds than the 
 retraotiou of her story, made you think 
 it so absolutely incredible ? 
 
 Dr. C. To put the strongest reason first — 
 I don't believe in Parthenogenesis, (you 
 may look up the word at your leisure.) It is 
 commonly supposed that to produce preg- 
 nancy, an interview, (pardon the euphuism) 
 with the opposite sex is required. Before 
 the galvanism was used, I had ascertained be- 
 yond doubt that no such "interview" had 
 ever taken place. The examination which Dr 
 Workman wishes people to suppose bo un- 
 usual and improper, mztde this point as 
 clear as possible ; the hymen was intact, and 
 presented a sharp, well defined margin, so that 
 
 the giri must have been, as I said, a perfect 
 maiden. I told her so at the time, and re- 
 buked her pretty sharply for having trumped 
 up such a tale when she wag well aware that 
 no man in the world had ever been near her. 
 
 Mr. B What did she say to that ? 
 
 Dr. C. She said, that though she well 
 knew that no one had ever been near her 
 when awake , still she had thought it possi- 
 ble that my son might have come to her 
 during be'- sleej^ as she had felt 80 strangely 
 at her las monthly illness. That sho could 
 not get the boy out of her head all day, and 
 was dreaming of him all night. 
 
 Mr. B. That's it exactly ! I always 
 thought that some vivid dream had been at 
 the bottom of the girl's delusion. 
 
 Dr. C. I have no doubt whatever the 
 idea originated in that way. 
 
 Dr. C. The extreme improbability of her 
 having been attacked, as she said she had 
 been, in her sleep, without either being 
 awakened herself, or without the servant 
 boy who slept close to her door being 
 aroused, must be self-evident 
 
 Mr. B. But apart from the story of the 
 violation, might she not, as some of the 
 nurses report her to have said, have carried 
 on an illicit connexion with your son? 
 
 Dr.C. Is it at all likely that she would have 
 gone to my wife and told her that my son had 
 been to her room a month before, and had 
 never been there since, if she was at the time, 
 conscious that^she was carrying on any 
 illicit connexion with him ? Again, if, as 
 has been surmised by some, she made the 
 communication to my wife under the pres- 
 sure of remorce caused by the preaching 
 she had heard, why did she retract it so 
 soon. But setting aside all other grounds, 
 her character was quite above suspicion. 
 
 Mr. B, How old was she ? 
 
 Dr. C. Mary Boyd was nineteen years 
 old. The boy whom sh* alleged had 
 violated her, was two years younger 
 
 Mr. B. What kind of a girl was she ? 
 
 Dr. C In person she was rather over 
 than under the middle size, very pleasing 
 in appearance, simple and engaging in her 
 manner, of rather a sedate and religious 
 turn of mind. She was especially reoaark- 
 able for her modesty of demeanour and 
 
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 propriety of conduct ; she was an excellent 
 ■ervant, and moat attentive to her duties. 
 My family liked her very much, and we 
 Uioat uiuoerely regret her unhappy fate. 
 
 Mr. B. Had you any reason to supposo 
 that there was anything wrong with her 
 mmd when she made the charge against 
 your 5on ? 
 
 Dr. C. Not very decidedly. Wfj had 
 noticed for 6om« little time that she had 
 become unsettled and restless in her man- 
 ner. We had seen nothing to make us 
 consider her actually insane, but, rather as 
 1 expressed it to the jury, she seemed 
 drifting into insanity. She talked strangely 
 upon religious subjecte.particularly about the 
 burning up of the world. This " burning" 
 seemed to be a very fixed idea, but it was 
 Dot the only one she dwelt on, 
 
 Mr. B. What other matters did she 
 speak of ? 
 
 I)r C. She told my wife on the day on 
 which she brought the charge against my 
 son, which was Thursday, 17th April, (Dr. 
 Workman is anxious for dates, and I wish to 
 gratify him), that she was very fond of my 
 Bon ; then she asked my wife to " give him 
 to her." After this she daily importuned 
 both myself and my wife to let her have the 
 boy, saying" that she could not live without 
 him." This, curiously enough, she kept 
 harping on, not to my son, but to all the 
 rest of us, and if the nurses of the Asylum 
 are to be believed, she continued to rave 
 about the lad up to the time of her death,6ay- 
 ing, " she loved him and would die for him." 
 
 Mr. B. But did your son do anything to 
 encourage her in this ? 
 
 Dr. C. I am t^uite sure that he did not ; 
 all in the house know that he was quite in- 
 different to her, although the poor creature, 
 crazed by a mere physical trouble, was 
 1. riven into an absorbing passion for him. 
 The term " passion " however, hardly cor- 
 rectly expresses the idea, as it cannot pro- 
 perly be applied to any emotion the result 
 of insanity ; but I cannot find a better word 
 to express the condition. 
 
 Mr. B. This is what you called in your 
 letter Erotomania^ which I understand to 
 be a kind of love-madness. 
 
 Dr. C. Precisely. It is a very sad though 
 
 not uncommon form of insanity, and the 
 subjects are generally persons of some 
 education and refinement. It differs in ono 
 remarkable respect from Nymphomania, 
 having always for its object one iadividual, 
 and being compatible with perfect propriety 
 of conduct, whereas Nymphutnania is quite 
 the opposite, being indiscriminate in its ob- 
 jects, and frequently leading to great immo- 
 desty of manner Shakespeare has gi^en 
 an instance of thi^ type of madness in 
 Hamlet's Ophelia, and (which is a curious 
 coincidence), he makes her select suicide 
 by drowning, as a means of ending her 
 troubles, the very way in which Mary Boyd 
 first tried to put an end to hers. The 
 strange love that both women and men 
 have felt for statues has often been descri- 
 bed by poets. This curious aberration of 
 mind, of which authentic records exist, is 
 probably a variety of this same type of 
 insanity. 
 
 Mr. B. Tell me why you kept the girl 
 in your house after you found her possessed 
 in this curious manner. Above all 
 when she made the unfounded charge 
 against your son, why did y u not turn 
 her oflF at once ? 
 
 Dr. C. It would have been v*. 'y great 
 cruelty to have done so. We a tached 
 not the slightest belief to her strange story; 
 her parents lived at a great distance; she had 
 no friends in the city, and she might if sent 
 away in her wretched mental state, have 
 easily become the victim of some scoun- 
 drel. Moreover, I told you she was a most 
 excellent servant and they are not always 
 easily replaced; and more than all, we had 
 strong hopes that her health would soon be 
 re-established, upon which, of course, all 
 her madness and delusions woul(J have 
 vanished. 
 
 Mr. B. This being the true state of the 
 case, how comes it that so much stress has 
 been laid on the subject of religious insanity 
 in reference to it. 
 
 Dr. C. In the blank form, for the admis- 
 sion of patients to the Asylum, I put down 
 Mary Boyd's case as one of religious in- 
 sanity, because it was necessary to give 
 some name to the type of insanity which 
 she manifested, and religious ideas, though 
 
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 u I said before tbej were not the only topio 
 ibe dwelt upon, were nerertheless far more 
 coDstantiy the subieot of her ravings than 
 the other, especially after she had, to soma 
 extent, improved in her female condition. 
 
 Mr. B. Then you did not consider that 
 religious excitement was the came of her 
 insanity, though I see Dr. Workman says 
 you did, 
 
 I>r. C. I did not , this is another point 
 00 which Dr. Workman must have misun- 
 derstood me. 
 
 Mr. B. Or, with bis economy of truth, 
 more likely misrepresented you, as he has 
 generally done. What did you really say 
 to him ? 
 
 Dr. C. I told him that I considered the 
 religious ravings, especially her dwelling so 
 much on what 5lr. Caughcy had said, as the 
 evidfuce of insanity, but not the cause of 
 it. In fact I do not believe that religion 
 is ever the cause of insanity. 
 
 Mr. B. You surely differ there from 
 very high authorities. 
 
 Dr. C. You know that 1 am rather in 
 the habit of differing from very high au- 
 thorities upon a good many points connect- 
 ed with my profession, and 1 suppose that 1 
 must be content to add this one to the 
 number. 
 
 Mr. B. What explanation then do you 
 give rf the so called cases of religious in- 
 sanity which are so fre<juently seen. 
 
 Dr. C. Persons suffering from certain 
 physical degeneration, either derived from 
 hereditary taint or otherwise induced, are 
 generally at the same time in an unstable 
 mental condition. In this precarious state 
 a very little matter fixes a predominating idea 
 in their minds. But the dwelling on this 
 idea proves merely that the insane tempera- 
 ment pre-existed. The train had been laid, 
 all that was required was the spark to set 
 fire to it. 
 
 IMr. B. I am glad yon have spoken so 
 clearly on this point. It will greatly com- 
 fort .'Ome very worthy men who have felt 
 hurt at the discussions to which this case 
 has given rise. They shudder at the bare 
 idea of religion ever being a cause of in- 
 sanity. 
 
 Dr. C- I repeat that I do not think it 
 
 ever is. If a certain physical degeneration 
 does not exist, all the preaching in the 
 world will never drive any human being 
 into a lunatic Asylum. 
 
 Mr. B. Your Methodist friends will feel 
 more kindly disposed to you for having 
 made this explicit declaration. 
 
 Dr. C. All the Methodists of my ac- 
 quaintance already know how I have 
 always spoken on this point. Do you 
 suppose that if! hadbelieved that the girl had 
 been driven mad by the preaching of one 
 Methodist clergyman, that I should have 
 sent as I did, for another to come to 
 comfort her ? 
 
 Mr. B. Did you really do this ? 
 
 Dr. C. Most certainly I did. The Rev. 
 •-eorge Young, a distinguished ornament of 
 ibat Church, who has lately left for the 
 Red River Settlement, is a very old and 
 highly esteemed friend of mine, I sent for 
 him, and, at very great incontcnience to 
 himself, for he was then packing up to leave 
 the city, he came and sat with her for nearly 
 an hour, trying to sc-othe her troubled mind ; 
 but he told me when lie came out of the 
 room, that he had utterly failed to make 
 any impression on her. Besides 1 think 
 you know that many of my warmest and 
 truest friends belong to the Methodist 
 body. 
 
 Mr B. There is but one other point on 
 which I wish to question you Dr. Work- 
 man wants to know what medical men were 
 present when you made the " personal " 
 examination of Mary Boyd, now, before 
 ye-)u answer 1 foresee that it will bring out 
 Rome fresh evidence of the insidious 
 dexterity of this " Pecksniff." He makes 
 no direct charge, but hints that something 
 improper must have taken place at the ex 
 amination. 
 
 Dr. C. Dr. Workman surely knows how 
 painful it must always be to a modest 
 young woman.who finds her health deranged 
 and her very lift perhaps endan.(erod, to 
 have to submit to local treatment as her 
 only hope of cure; for this treatment previ- 
 ous examinution i.s of course indispensable. 
 Does nut Dr. Workman think that it would 
 very materially add to her suffering and 
 confusion to be obliged to undergo this 
 
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 paiuful, but unavoidable ordeal ia ".he 
 preseace of more than oue medioal luao ? 
 
 Mr. B. Of course he does, but then it 
 suited bis purpose to make what he thought 
 a djkmaging iusinuation. But if that was 
 what was meant by Dr.HallowcirB euphuism 
 of " critical " examioation, then I see that 
 io hia evidence, Dr. Workman give? the 
 public to believe that he never makes any 
 8uch upon women, whom he saye he 
 *' always treats as he would bin own 
 daughters." 
 
 Pr. C. That was the mo»t astounding 
 declaration I ever heard i'rom a medical 
 man. 
 
 Mr B What was tlwre po very remark 
 able about it ? 
 
 Dr V A physician in charge of some 
 two Of three hundred female lunatics, very 
 man) of whom by his own acknowledgmoat 
 are sad victims of" peculiar habits " wbifh 
 in the majority of raHes arc the result of 
 mere local irritation, arising possibly from 
 a tumour, ulcer, or some other perfectly 
 removable cause, allows these poor creatures 
 to be goaded into frenzy by excitement, 
 and ultimately hf the result of their en- 
 deavours to relieve it, to drift into utter 
 imbecility. All because heia too squeamish 
 to make a local examination. 
 
 Mr. B. This stems to be sacrificing 
 health, reason and and oven life itself to 
 moek-modesty, and in that case I should 
 say that Dr. Workninn /,« totalhj it)if>t for 
 the s^tuiitioh he holds, and the sooner ho is 
 superseded the better it will be, af least for 
 the t'emale inmates of the Asylum. 
 
 Dr. C. My own strong opinion is that 
 competent female physicians should, as soon 
 as they can be obtained, bo placed in charge 
 of all female lunatics suffering like those 
 we have i'pc'ken of, and they constitute a 
 large prctportion of the whole. I do not 
 meaii anything like the drivelling old ma- 
 trons we generally see in such institutions, 
 but graduates of Medical Colleges, well edu- 
 cated experienced practitioners ; and many 
 such ladies are now to be found. 
 
 Mr. B. I think the public will be entire- 
 ly of your opi'don on that point ; though it 
 is not every medical man that would have 
 the liberality to acknowledge the compe- 
 
 tency of physicians of the opposite sex. 
 
 Dr. C I am happy to proclaim that I 
 have met with several most highly ac- 
 complished lady physicians, whose know- 
 ledge of anatomy, physiology, in fact of all 
 the sciences bearing upon our profession 
 was ample and thorough. Yet I can 
 hardly bring myself to believe that l>r. 
 Workman objects to such '' critical " ex- 
 amination in every case. 
 
 Mr. B, Then he had no business to lead 
 the jury to believe that he did. He wished 
 tliem t- get the impression that you had 
 done something unheard of, or, at all eveutfl 
 most unusual and improper. That he and 
 the other doctors succeeded in so do- 
 ing i.n I vident from the ridiculous postscript 
 which thoy had the impertinence to append 
 to their idiotic verdict 
 
 Dr. C. If ever there was a case where 
 ^iloie attenuon to the condition of certain 
 organ.- wa? .necessary it was surely the pre- 
 sent. The microscopical exarumation com- 
 pletely established that in xMary Boyd's 
 case there was going on a sub-acut^ or 
 chronic inflammation of all the internal 
 gonerative oipans. This was beyond all 
 doubt the riiuse of her insanity, as was 
 shown by the peculiarity of her delusion, 
 
 Mr. B. Dr Workman seems to be par- 
 ti'^-ularly anxious to know not only wlio was 
 present at, but also the precise date of, the 
 examination which he wanted the jury to 
 think fo very unusual — can't you tell him ? 
 
 Dr. C I can easily satisfy Dr. Work- 
 man's curiosity I hope he will be 
 equally willing to clear up nnother point. 
 On the 20th of April there were quite suf- 
 ficient evidences of virginity in Mary Boyd 
 to enable any medical jurist to speak on 
 that point with confidence. From that date 
 the girl was too closely looked after 
 until the 29th April when she was taken 
 to the Asylum, for it to be possible for 
 those signs to have been removed without 
 detection in the way in which such evi- 
 dences are conimouly made to disap}}ear. 
 The conclusion thereforo must lie that they 
 vanished, or at least very j^reatly diminished 
 in distinctness sometime between the period 
 of her entering the Asylum, and the 6lh May 
 when her dead body was legally inspected 
 
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 in the " Mortuary." 
 
 Mr. B, I hope this will satiHl'y Dr. 
 Wortniau's anxiety as. to dates, i don't 
 Bee what he wanted to make uut of it ua- 
 lei»a it wah to ^et another opportunity of 
 making t!oiue vague insinuatioau of, [ don't 
 know what, ugainst you ; and of sneerini; 
 Ht your friend Dr. Adams, whoiLi I know 
 to bo a man of the uiost upright and uu- 
 blemished character, whose only orime in 
 Dr Workman's eyes must be that he is a 
 
 HoViEOI'ATHIST. 
 
 Dr. C That is quite crime enough. 
 
 INIr. B, But 1 see that Dr. Workman 
 has been censured in a silly letter in the 
 Teietjraph, for uaving allowed Flomtco- 
 pathic roedirines to be administered in thj 
 A.!iylum. 
 
 Dr (J*. It is true that he allowed me to 
 leave for the patient a little Bryonia, but 
 the commtut which he made in her pre- 
 sence upon its supposed inertnese naturally 
 led her m object to taking it 
 
 Mr. B. Whicii he tries to turn into a 
 proof that the girl was afraid to take 
 anything from your hand. 
 
 r>r. C. D. must be borne m mind that 
 the wound iu the throat made a!i swallowing 
 exceedingly painful, and no wonder she ob- 
 jected to going through the pain of taking 
 any medicine, however tavStelese, when she 
 had been told that no good was to be ob- 
 tained from it 
 
 Mr. B. From what I know of the efficacy 
 of Homoeopathic remedies, I should have 
 expected some good to result from the admin- 
 istration of Bryonia in such a case ; whioh 
 h.id then, I believe, become one of bronchial 
 and lung inflammation. To judge by re- 
 sulti!i, it would have done at least as much 
 good as the medicinef- poured into her by 
 Dr. Workman. I mean the Opmm, Hyoscy- 
 aitna and Digitalis, mentioned iu his evi- 
 dence, all of which are virulent poisons, I 
 be'ieve , which, even if they did no harm, 
 ana of that I am by no means certain, they, 
 at all events, do not seem to have done 
 much good. 
 
 Dr. C. I am glad that upon this point 
 you are so thoroughly upon my side. 
 
 Mr. B. I hope you will soon have the 
 majority of the public as thoroughly on 
 
 your side Yuu have always known me to 
 be a tirm believer in your system. I have 
 far too often experienced its officacy to huve 
 any doubt on the subject. I am happy to 
 see that you number among >our adherents 
 • very large proportion of men of high 
 station and intelligence, both in my own 
 profession and among the clergy, who are 
 the most competent to jud;.^e on the ques- 
 tion as beiug perfectly unbiassed. 
 
 Dr. C. I know that to be the case, but I 
 am nevertheless glad to have you admit it 
 to fully. 
 
 Mr H. How came it that Dr. T.izars was 
 not at the inquest ? I think you said that 
 be helped you to dress the girl's wound. 
 
 Dr. C. A subpoena was issued for him 
 for the first day of the inquest, but as he 
 was out of town it was not served. He re- 
 turned the same evening, and should have 
 received an additional notice from the coro- 
 ner when the inquest was unexpectedly pro- 
 tracted, to ba present on the second day at 
 ih^ post mortem. Having assisted me with 
 his well known surgical skill at the dressing 
 of the wound, and beiug able to testify to 
 the girl's mental condition at the time, 
 besides, as he has since informed me, beiug 
 able to give important evidence as to sonm 
 other material points, bearing upon the 
 subjects we have discussed, he had a better 
 right to be present and make the post mor- 
 tem examination than those who were called 
 upon to do so. 
 
 Mr. B. But that would have led to 
 a total.failure of the conspiracy, for though! 
 have always heard Dr Lizars speak strongly 
 against Homoeopathy, I am fure lie vi 
 far too honorable a man to lend himself to 
 :iny underhand scheme to put it down. 
 
 Dr. C. I am quite certain of that. 
 
 Mr. B. I have always heard Dr. Lizars 
 admit that in spite of your Homoeopathic 
 heresy you were a perfectly competent sur- 
 geon, as able a physiologist and pathologist 
 as any man of the Rchooi you have leflt ; 
 that he would as soon, I don't know whether 
 he did not say sooner, take your diagnosis 
 of any disease than that of any medical 
 man in town. 
 
 Dr. C. Such testimony, of course, is v«ry 
 gratifying to me, but I am afraid that such 
 
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 liberality of opioiou may briag Dr Lizara 
 into discredit with the praotitionerB of his 
 own school. 
 
 Mi. B. By-the-byo, I bad almost for- 
 gotten to ask you to explain a rather im- 
 S>rtaDt point, and that is : what Mary 
 oyd could have meant, if she really said 
 what one of the nurses avers she did, 
 by saying that you and your son took her 
 into n room and gave hor something that 
 burned her inside up ? 
 
 Dr. C. I am totally at a loss to know ; 
 but 1 have been given to understand that 
 this, coupled with Dr. Workman's insinua- 
 tion as to the possibility of pregnancy hav- 
 ing at one time existed, has given rise in 
 the minds of some people to an idea that 
 something may have been given, with a 
 view to produce abortion. JSow it has 
 over and over again b«6n clearly proved that 
 pregnancy did not exist, and could not pos- 
 sibly have existed, or even been supposed t« 
 have possibly existed ; therefore, nothing 
 could have been given to her to put an end 
 to that condition. 
 
 Mr. B. Besides, your school are not in 
 the habit of giving doses of anything likely 
 to " bum the inside." 
 
 Dr C. And, even if we were, it ia known 
 to all educated physicians, in which class I 
 may venture without presumption to rank 
 myself, that though certain powerful med- 
 icines injudiciously used may lead to mis- 
 carriage in delicate females with a strong 
 predisposition to it ; yet the impossibility 
 of bringing it on in a healthy woman by 
 any drugs, whether they '' bum the inside 
 out " or not, is clearly established, and I 
 dare say it is known even to those wretches 
 who are constantly disgusting the public 
 by their vile and mysteriously -worded ad- 
 vertisements, of having such trash for sale. 
 If I could have supposed pregnancy possi- 
 ble, which it has beien proved I could not, 
 it is not very likely that I would have 
 joined with my son in such a preposterous 
 method of putting an end to it ; no medical 
 man of common sense or intelligence would 
 believe this for one moment. The "burning" 
 that the patient talked of, and the word was 
 scarcely ever out of her mouth, was the bum^ 
 log up of the world ; the nurses mingled toge- 
 
 ther her ravings on the two subjects upper- 
 most in her miod. But as i said before, she 
 never,in mv hearing,or in that of any member 
 of mv family Joined the two subjects together. 
 
 ^Ir. B. I have now done with my cross- 
 examination, and must congratulate you on 
 the triumphant manner in which yr^ur cha- 
 racter as a man and your skill as i physi- 
 cian have come out of this most searching 
 ordeal. You have shown in the manage- 
 ment of the most perplexing case that it 
 ever fell to the lot of any one to deal with, 
 both sound judgment and great kindness of 
 feeling. I am sure that the conspirators 
 who plotted your ruin, will find that they 
 have only made you stand higher in general 
 esteem, and this painful subject will pro- 
 bably be now dropped for ever. 
 
 Dr. C. I hope it will be so, because 
 these public discussions are only a hindrance 
 to me, by taking up my time, and to 
 my family they are a source of very great 
 annoyance. 
 
 Mr. B. What do you think of putting 
 our eonversatioD down in writing, in the 
 order and as near as you can remember, 
 and in our very words. If you can get the 
 Telegraph to publish it, you will need no 
 better vindication. If I should notice 
 any more letters in the papers on this case, 
 I will drop in and talk the matter over 
 with you, and you can publish our con- 
 versation as ^an answer to them. 
 
 Dr. C. I am much obliged to you for this 
 offer, as well as for all the trouble you have 
 taken hitherto. I will follow your advice aa 
 to writing down our talk. I shall have to 
 leave out a great many of the kind things 
 you have said of myself; and I cannot ven- 
 ture to put down the strong terms in which 
 you have spoken of Dr. Workman. 
 
 Mr. B. Don't be so fastidious. I have 
 thoroughly proved every thing I said of Dr. 
 Workman. You seemed shocked at first 
 at the language I used, but I have estab- 
 lished all that I asserted. I have shewn not 
 only that Dr. Workman's insinuations 
 against you are all untrue, but that he well 
 knew their untruthfulness when he was 
 sending them for publication. You must 
 therefore be ready to admit that I was 
 most fully justified in the opinion I expres- 
 
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 sed, and both jou and the whole public will 
 
 gobably now agree that I have proved that 
 r. Joseph Workman, Superintendent of 
 the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, still merits 
 the character, which as Dr. Joseph Work- 
 man, editor of the Toronto Mirror, he 
 had earned, of being the most unscrupu- 
 lotu and reckless slandeier that ever han- 
 dled a pen. 
 
 Our couvereation here came to an 
 end. I hope you will bo able to spare 
 rae bpace enough in your paper for the 
 report of it 1 have given above. 
 
 D . CAMPBELL, M.D. 
 108 Bay Street, 20th May, 1868. 
 
 The following are the LetterH referred to bearing on this intere.iting case. 
 They are printed verbatim from Dr. Campbell's letter book : 
 
 easy fMlingi , eMoied t« be unhappy without any 
 •pparent eauie and talii«d T«ry ttraugely. Thii 
 condition haa gradually become worue, when yaiter- 
 day the poor girl mad* an attempt to drown herielf 
 in the well, but ihe waa fortunately reiouad With- 
 out receiTiDg any injury. I have had the aiiiit- 
 anee of other Medioal men in my efforta to benefit 
 har, bnt they hsye as yet been unavailinj;, and for 
 her own lafety, as well ai for that of my family, I 
 find myielf under the painful neoes^ity o( tending 
 her to the Asylara. 
 
 I have been very anwilling to do thii, and havo 
 postponed it as long at it can be done with safety. 
 I think that you should come to Toronto withoat 
 delay to look after har. 
 
 Yours Tery faithfully, 
 
 D. CAMPBELL, M. D. 
 
 108 Bay St., Toronto, 27th April, 186«. 
 
 K«v. Geobgk Yocko, Bay Street, 
 
 MtDbar SiB,--Our servant girl is greatly trou- 
 bled in her mind, and I think shows decided marks 
 of insanity. She has expresiied a desire to see a 
 Clergyman, and tells me that she hat! always 
 been in the habit of attending the Methodist 
 Churoh. I will feel grateful if you will kin^'y 
 come hero as soon as you oan, and try to comfort 
 her. I feel unwilling to trespass on your time, m 
 I know you are in all the trouble of preparation to 
 laa?e ; but I am sure that in a case like this you 
 will not object tf> come. 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 D. CAMPBELL, M.D. 
 
 Id addition to the constant attendance of Dr. 
 Adam^ from the very eommeucament of Mary 
 Uoyd's illness ; Dr. Campbell, when the <>use be- 
 came more urgent, wishing L*r. Hall to give her 
 the benefit cf his skill and experience, .sani bim 
 the following note. Dr. Hal!, with hi.s usual 
 promptitude, came at once. 
 
 108 Bay St., Torontc;, 
 
 Monday noon, 27th April. 
 Dii. JoHK H4LL, Richmond St. 
 
 Mv Dkab Sik, — Our servant girl has, I fear, be 
 come quite insane, and it may be necobsary fo 
 send her to the Asylum. I am unwilling to do 
 this as long as there is no danger to he appre- 
 hended of her doing mischief either to herself or to 
 others , but she is talking now in such a manner s« 
 to mak<> me very anxiout about her. I will fee! 
 gruatly obliged if you nill come and scq her 
 Possibly you may be able to pruscribt* something 
 fur her that may render it unnecessary to send har 
 away. She is a very good, respectable girl, and 
 we are all very much concerned about her 
 
 Please send word by bearer when you can 
 come 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 D. CAMPBELL. 
 
 108 Bay Street, Toronto. 38th April, 16«8. 
 
 Mb. Tbomab Boyd, Woopvillb, Bldok, Ont. 
 
 Dbab Sib,— Year daughtar Mary hM bean living 
 In my family tinea the New Year, and until a weak 
 or two ago the hat been in very good health. 
 About ten days ago the began to ooraplaia of in- 
 
 108 Bay Street, Toronto, 1st May, 1868. 
 
 To the Postmaster, Woodville, Township of 
 £ldon, Ont. 
 
 DiAB Sib,— I wrote on the 2erh inst., a letter to 
 ai.t. Thomas Boyd of your township, informing him 
 of the sad condition of his daughter Mary, who 
 had been living in my family for some months, 
 and bad become insane. Since I wrote to him, the 
 has, as you will see by the « Ltad*r," (of wbiah I 
 send a oopy by this mail to yoo) m.-ide a second 
 attempt at self-destruotion, which I much fear will 
 be fatal. She is in the Asylum. I have seen 
 her this morning, and will see her again this even- 
 ing, but I greatly f'jar that her recovery is hope- 
 less. The wound io her throat is not doing well, 
 and has caused inflammation of the lining mem- 
 brane of the lungs. My object in writing to you it 
 that I know that farmers rurely send to their 
 Pott Office mora than onoe a week, and thinking 
 that Mr Boyd might not receive my letter, I now 
 write toyoQ to get a special messenger to take my 
 tetter of the 28th to him, and he may take this 
 one toe, and to be^ of bim if he espeett to see his 
 daughter Mary alive, to some to Toronto without 
 delay. He will not get this notice in time to be in 
 Toronto before the Grand Trunk train of Monday 
 arrives, and I greatly .fear that he will then be 
 too late to tee hit daughter alive. She has been 
 so good and faithful a servant in my family, that 
 we feel the deepest interest in her, and will do all 
 wo can for har. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 D. CAMPBELL. M.D. f 
 
COM:vrE?sTS OF TIEE TKESS. 
 
 \V\' }i;ivc rocoivod udvaiu'cd slioets of 
 a ))aiiijil>U>l ri'latiiii^ to the di-alh of 
 the irirl Mary7>ovi>, ftn-mcrly a servant 
 ill ilie ('m|»lr)y of Dr. Campbki.l, which 
 look }»Iaco recently in llie Asylum. 
 The ]iaiii]»iilot eontrtiiis a certified copy 
 of the evi<lviice taken at the int|uest ; 
 all of what has ap})earcd in the papers 
 on the subject ; and a verj' interesting 
 conversation between Mr. Bi-ank and 
 Dr. C. which goes over the whole 
 ground, and meets every objection 
 w"hich medical partisanship or personal 
 unfriendliness could broadly affirm or 
 hurtful!}' insinuaie. When thevenliet 
 was rendered in this case we strongly 
 censured it, for what seemed to us the 
 vei-y gooil reason, that a jury sli<nild 
 not have been influenced by the ])rac- 
 titioners of any one School iif Medicine 
 to condemn the ]>ractice of adoctor be- 
 longing to another antl a hostile 
 School. The Cull >^tatements now be- 
 fort; us, which wc have carefully read, 
 confirm our tirst impression. Dr. 
 ( '.\MPBEi-i. has boon made the object of 
 very bitter attack mainly because lie 
 is a KonKeopathic jdiysician and the 
 President of the noma'o])athic IJoanl. 
 It has been very i>iuadly insinuated 
 tliat the use of galvanism — or what Di-. 
 
 C.AMPUF.LT- calls " Faradayism" — in the 
 case of tiiis unfortunate girl had no 
 pure or proper motive to serve. The 
 evidence clearly shows that the girl 
 was not pregnant; that she was suffer- 
 ing from a condition known as ilyswai- 
 orrfuvd ; that she labored under delu- 
 sions which finally led to a species of 
 insanity — delusions which in her saner 
 niomcnts she freel}- aekjiowledged. 
 The admission that the girl never was 
 pregnant narroww the question down to 
 one of treatment. If Dr. Campbell's 
 treatment is to be open to supervision, 
 censorious criticism and condemnation 
 by every A 1 Input hie physician who 
 differs fVom him, the Legislature might 
 as well step in at once and declare that 
 Allo]»aths alone shall be allowed to 
 practice. Wc have not quite come to 
 that yet; and the more intelligent por- 
 tions of the public are alreaily jiretty 
 well convinced that intallibility, or 
 anything near approaching to it, is not 
 to 1k> tound in any Seh(Mjl. and that at 
 best medical practice is uncertain 
 enough to be |iroperly called empirical 
 The ]>ani])hlet ]»laces the whole matter 
 in its proper light, and ought to be 
 very generally reail. — Toroiu,) Daily 
 Lci'hr. June 4th, 18«H. 
 
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 The case of Mary Boyd, upon whoi*e 
 n'miiin^i an inquest was held in tho 
 Lunaiic Asyhun some weeks ago. has 
 since been the subjoct of discussion in 
 nn evening pa))er. Dr. Campbell, whose 
 eondnct was impugned by an ignorant 
 jury, acting under the proiapting of a 
 ring of doctors of a rival sihool. has 
 defended himself with great spirit and 
 ability, so effectually in fact, that the 
 journal which atlmitteil the attacks 
 upon him, was afraid to publish liis 
 clusing and most crushiiig reply. Dr. 
 Campbell, has, therefore, published the 
 documents, evidence, editoiials ;ind 
 letters, pro and con, in a jtumplilet 
 whicli he will send to all the medical 
 men in the Provinee, and all the news- 
 papers, that they may ju<Ige uf the 
 merits of the ca,se, and which \v\\\ also 
 be for sale at the jK'riodical shops for 
 a low price. We have })eeu favored 
 with an early co])y of this publication, 
 and it confirms our fornierh expi-essed 
 opinion that the charges against J)r. 
 Campbell were trumjted up against him 
 bj- medical rivals.and would never have 
 been heard of had iie not been a prac- 
 titioner of a new School. The case is 
 really not fit for discussion in a news- 
 paper, and it fortunately can !te dis- 
 j)Osed of in a very few sentences, .so far 
 as we are eoncerned. 
 
 A charge of alxirtion \va> been insin- 
 uated rather than urged against Dr, 
 Campbell by his more un.scrupulous 
 opjKUjents. The medical men *'xainin- 
 ed at the inquest j)roved that the con- 
 dition of the girl was utterly incon- 
 sistent with the allegation that she was 
 
 or had been enceinte ; and the supposi- 
 tion that an old experienced physi- 
 cian like l)i'. Campbell had attempted 
 an act impossible of performance, and 
 for which no cause existed, is too ab- 
 surd for belief. Equally absunl is the 
 supposition that a lather, upon being 
 informed by a servant in his house that 
 she had formed impro])er relations 
 towai-ds a son of 17, two years younger 
 than herself Avould, if he believed her 
 story true, and not a delusion resulting 
 from mania, have kej)t her in his 
 houst'. He would unquestionably have 
 turned her out and ma<b' an end of the 
 matter. Tlie girl was insane ; Iser al- 
 legation was a delnsi<m, and Di*. Camp- 
 bell, with the kindness which foims a 
 eonspicious part of his character, en- 
 deavoretl to cure her, called in two or 
 three medical men to assist, .^cnt for 
 her clergyman, did everythinu. in 
 shf)rt, which humaiuty could suggest 
 towards a faithful servant, as he sup- 
 posed, tem[)orarily deprived of reason. 
 
 As to the use of the galvanic batterj' 
 by Dr. Campbell, his accusing rivals 
 think he was wrong. Dr. Can4»bell 
 backs up his views by authorities. 
 The non-medical public can hardly 
 form an opinion on the .subject. It is 
 a matter for doctors entirely. But he 
 must be an extraordinary fool who de- 
 cides as the Coroner's Jury did, that 
 because Dr. Tlichardson and l)v. Beny- 
 man said galvanism ought not to have 
 been used, Dr. Campbell's treatment 
 \v:is wrong. The offium theologieum is 
 mildness itself con lared with tho 
 spirit which animates some of our 
 meilicos wlu>n hunting down a riv;.l. 
 
 We trust that Provincial journalists 
 wht> canu' to a hasty conclusion on 
 this ease on the garbled evidence sujh 
 jtlied by the Coroner, will reiul Dr. 
 Camjdteirs pamphlet and <to him jus- 
 tice in the pi-emisos. — Toronto Daily 
 (iM>i;h\\\i' 5th, 1868. 
 
 ti^^r^l^^ ""* '° Canada roqiiiren to h^ told that these comment* are made by the two leadinc papers 
 of the Doininion. Of opponite political Tiew*, they arc alike u"i?t'i)BUtfheil for impartiality and the eminent 
 ability wjih which they are I'onducted.