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[page 15] ever tell you the truth in any thing, about any thing? A. They may tell the truth about some things; but I think it is very doubtful about it in most cases. It is the statements of a very few that I should want to take as a positive truth. Q. Supposing it was in reference to ordinary events that are transpiring; suppose one said, I had an apple given me to day? A. O, yes. Q. You would believe that would you? A. Yes, from a great many. Q. Are there those there, whom, if they should ^ say, "I was left to sleep in my clothes last night," you would believe? A. I would. Q. These ordinary things, transpiring from day to day? A. Yes sir. Q. If one should say, "Another patient struck me," would you believe it as a general thing, or would you inquire into it then? A. I should inquire into it then. I dont think I should take it as truth until I had. Q. Supposing a person to come over to the hospital and to go through it under the direction of one of the officers or an attendant, is it your judgement, from your knowledge of the hospital, that he would get by it, going through ordinarily, a correct knowledge