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D.id not see anything in the remains dissimilar from Dr. Parkman.
There was nothing differing from what I should expect in Dr. 'Park.
man, in the muscular developments of the lower parts. The flesh
showed indications of chemical application.
[The report of Dr. Jackson was now read.]
I, CHARLES T. JACKSON, being duly sworn, depose as follows:
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I am, by profession, a Physician and Chemist. On the first day
of December, 1849, I was requested, by Mr. James H. Blake, to
accompany Dr. Martin Gay in making some chemical and other
examinations at the Massachusetts Medical College, in the city of
Boston; and at four o'clock in the afternoon of that day, I went, with
Dr. Gay, to the Medical College, and there met Dr. Winslow Lewis,
Jr., and others, with the coroner of the county of Suffolk, and the jury
of inquest. We made a: general examination on that afternoon,
and adjourned until Sunday morning, when we resumed our examin-
ation; Dr. Jeffries Wyman being associated with us, and aiding in
the examination of the bones found in the furnace of the chemical
laboratory, and also took chips of wood on which we had been shown
certain brown stains, which were submitted to Dr. Wyman to
examine.
Dr. F. S. Ainsworth also assisted us in the selection of fragments
of bone from the cinders of the furnace. The bones found by us
were in a mass of cinders and ashes which had been removed from
the furnace by the police officers, and were placed in a box, and had
the appearance of having been exposed to fire. They were much
broken, and were, in some instances, partially fused into the cinders.
We identified, at that time, the following bones: right os calcis,
right astragdlus, tibia and fibula, phalanges, resembling those of the
ring or middle finger; coronoid process of the lower jaw, and numer-
ous fragments of a human skull; a human tooth with a hole in it,
appearing as if it had once been filled by a dentist's operation ; three
blocks of mineral teeth, with platinum rivets in one of them entire,
but wanting the gold plate on which mineral teeth are usually set.
A pearl shirt-button was also found in the ashes of the furnace,
and was partially calcined. .Numerous little copper cups found in
in one of the laboratory drawers - they did not appear to have been
burnt.
Many pieces of glass were also found among the slags and cinders
of the furnace. Masses of metal were also found, which proved, by
analysis, to consist of, in 25 grains,
Tin, 12.19
Lead, 11.95
24.14
Hence, it is evidently tea-chest lead.
The cinders of the furnace, pounded and washed, yielded globules
of gold, some silver, and a little copper. In the portion of slags and
cinders worked by me, 30 grains of gold were found.
My attention having been called to the state of parts of the human
body which Dr. Lewis was examining, I took portions of the skin
and muscles from the thorax, and tested them by reddened litmus
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