"Those pills are, as you will observe, coated, and the man would swallow them whole--immediately after his food.

Now, it would take some little time for a pill to dissolve, to disintegrate, to be digested.

If Collishaw took one of my pills as soon as he had eaten his dinner, according to instructions, and if poison had been in that pill, he would not have died at once--as he evidently did.

Death would probably have been delayed some little time until the pill had dissolved.

But, according to the evidence you have had before you, he died quite suddenly while eating his dinner--or immediately after it.
I am not legally represented here--I don't consider it at all necessary--but I ask you to recall Dr.Coates and to put this question to him: Did he find one of those digestive pills in this man's stomach ?" The Coroner turned, somewhat dubiously, to the two doctors who had performed the autopsy.