Chaos
Chaos
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DOI：
10.1136/bmj.2.817.266
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1876-08
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J. Rogers
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或者“真是个谎言”，或者“我怎么能这么说呢”？或者立即要求把她叫来。然而，在别人面前，他从来没有一次跟考克斯太太谈过这个问题。对于这种批评，唯一合理的回答是，他不理解考克斯太太指责他故意服毒；我看不出有哪个医生在他面前明确地说她是这样做的。在仔细阅读了考克斯太太告诉医生他服了毒药这一主题的所有证据之后，我认为没有理由怀疑，虽然她有相当充分的理由没有告诉莫医生，但她相信她告诉了哈里森先生；不过，在这样做的过程中，她混淆了自己的说法，即他服用了毒药，而另一种说法是他服用的毒药是氯仿。后来，她发现医生们认为他没有服用氯仿，而且似乎怀疑他服用了任何毒药，于是她向罗耶斯·贝尔先生和约翰逊医生重复了她的陈述。她没有告诉摩尔博士的理由是，她认为他会因为嫉妒妻子而服毒，这将是一个丑闻；当他恢复健康时（在她看来，他只是服用了氯仿），布拉沃先生会因为这件事被公之于众而大发雷霆。米尔。布拉沃似乎没有表现出康复的愿望，对他的病突然发作也不感到惊讶，对他的病的性质不清楚也不感到惊讶。或者好奇地想知道，如果他不小心吃了毒药，他是如何得到它的，或者是谁故意给他的。相反，他果断地，甚至粗暴地制止了任何这类的讨论。这一切都需要他继父所说的那种勇气。至于动机，他脾气暴躁；几年前中暑；被一种令人恼火和沮丧的想法所支配，简直就是个偏执狂；要是那天他的偏执狂的主题摆在他面前，曾威胁要自杀；早上洗了个土耳其浴，下午洗了个热水澡。这几天来，他多少有点面神经痛；吃饭时，他的脸紧张地抽搐着，一副病怏怏的样子，似乎很烦躁。第二天早上，他收到了母亲一封令人恼火的信；下午，又从他父亲那儿来了一封类似的信；那天下午他的神经系统粗暴地动摇了；上床睡觉的时候，他看到他妻子在一件众所周知使他非常恼火的事情上表现出软弱，心里很不安。在这种情况下，疯狂的冲动一点也不奇怪。这是真的，有另一方的争论；但是，这些问题已经被充分地、反复地提出了，没有必要再重复了。不可否认，这些都有一定的分量。因此，虽然我倾向于自杀的可能性，而不是谋杀，但也许合理的结论是，虽然布拉沃先生是被锑毒死的，但没有足够的证据确切地说明锑是如何或以什么形式被引入系统的。4. 他是被谋杀的。对这个问题的讨论实际上包含在前面命题的讨论中，因为不可否认，在这种情况下，问题实际上是谋杀或自杀。我只能补充说，在仔细阅读证据后，没有足够的证据证明在任何人或许多人的头脑中存在希望、恐惧、欲望、愿望或幻想，这些可能被认为能够提供适当的犯罪动机。我不愿意讨论第五个命题，尽管可以引用支持它的论据。相信一个大罪行比相信一个大愚蠢或一个疯狂的行为更能满足大众的耸人听闻的渴望：人类的弱点可能促成了最后的判决。对某些人来说，这也许是一种引诱，使他们相信犯罪，承认他们几乎不可能被证明是错的；而那些相信愚蠢的人，如果他们是错的，可能会被他们的错误所定罪。
or "What a lie", or "How could I have said so"? or demanded at once that she should be sent for. Yet, he never on one single occasion, before others, spoke to Mrs. Cox on the subject. The only reasonable answer to this criticism is that he did not understand that Mrs. Cox had accused him of taking poison wilfully ; and I do not see that any of the medical men put it categorically before him that she had done so. After carefully reading all the evidence on the subject of Mrs. Cox informing the medical men that he had taken poison, I see no reason to doubt that whilst, for fairly sufficient reasons, she did not tell Dr. Mo,ore, yet she believed that she did tell Mr. Harrison; though, in doi'ng so, she mixed up her statement that he had taken poison with bfer opinion that the poison he had taken was chloroform. Afterwards, finding the doctors thought he had not taken chloroform, and seemed /to doubt his having taken any poison, she repeated her statement to Mr. Royes Bell and Dr. Johnson. Her reasons for not telling Dr. Moore are, that she thought it would be such a scandal that he should have taken poison on account of jealousy for hit wife; and that, when he recovered (as having, in her opinion, only taken chloroform, he would), Mr. Bravo would be so angry at the circumstance having been made known. MIr. Bravo seems to have expressed no desire to recover, and no surprise at the suddenness of his illness, or at the fact that-putting poison on one side-the nature of it was obscure; or curiosity to know how, if he had taken poison accidentally, he could have got hold of it, or who could have given it to him intentionally. On the contrary, he determinately, and once rudely, put a stop to any such disquisitions. All this required the courage which he was said by his stepfather to possess. Witlh regard to motive, he was quick in temper; had (quanhtzem vakat) a sunstroke some years ago ; was so dominated by an irritating and depressing idea as to have been little less than a monomaniac ; had that day had the subject of his monomania prominently before him; had threatened to commit suicide; had a Turkish bath in the morning and a warm bath in the afternoon. He had been suffering more or less from facial neuralgia for several days; and at dinner had nervous twitchings of the face, and looked ill and seemed irritable. In the morning, he had received an annoying letter from his mother; and in the afternoon, one of a similar character from his father; had that afternoon had Ihis nervous system rudely shaken ; and, on going up to bed, had been agitated by an exhibition of his wife's weakness in a matter which was known to annoy him intensely. Under such circumstances, an insane impulse is very far from surprising. It is true, there are arguments on the other side; but these have been so fully and repeatedly set forward, that it is needless to repeat them. It is not to be denied that these are of some weight. Therefore, though I lean to the probability of suicide, as against murder, probably the sound conclusion to adopt is that, though Mr. Bravo was poisoned by antimony, there is not sufficient evidence to say positively how or in what shape it wasintroduced into the system. 4. That he was murdered. The discussion of this question is virtually included in that of the preceding proposition, for it cannot be denied that the issue in this case is practically murder or suicide. I have only to add that, on a careful perusal of the evidence, sufficient proof of the existence in the mind or minds of any person or persons of hopes, fears, desires, wislhes, or re, which might be supposed capable of supplying an adequate motive for crime, has not been established. The fifth proposition I do not care to discuss, though arguments in its favour might be adduced. It is more satisfactory to the sensational cravings of the multitude to believe in a great crime than in a great folly or in an act of insanity: a human weakness which may have contributed to produce the la st verdict. It may be an inducement to some to believe in the crime, to admit that it is scarcely possible they can ever be proved to be in t 'he wrong; wlhereas those who believe in the folly may, if they are wronig, be convicted of their error.