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Excerpt from The Maybrick Case: A Treatise Great public excitement prevailed during the whole course of the proceedings - the circumstances connected with his death being regarded as a Mystery. The medical men, Dr. Humphreys of Garston and Dr. Carter of Liverpool, who were in attendance on him during his fatal illness, had not attended him on any previous occasion, and were unacquainted with his habits or constitution, and, as they were unable to assign the cause of death, and had refused to give a certificate, the Coroner was communicated with, and a postmortem examination was made on Monday, the 13th May, by Dr. Humphreys and Dr. Carter, assisted by Dr. Barron, but, these medical men being still unable to assign the cause of death, certain portions Of the body were selected by them and placed in sealed jars. Dr. Humphreys also took samples of the contents of the sinks, both inside and outside of the house, which were put into bottles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.