Day 115 - 06 Apr 95 - Page 08

     
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     2        Now, that is consonant with evidence that I gave the day
     3        before yesterday.  "The skin of the head kept clean but
     4        dry".  That, to my mind, confirms exactly what I said
     5        before.  I have concerns that the current that passes
     6        through the brain particularly is by-passed.
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     8   Q.   Did you look at the tables which were included, I think, in
     9        the files that we sent you?
    10        A.  Yes, I did.  Would you give me just a moment so
    11        I can -----
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    13   Q.   Yes, please do.  I was not going to go through them in
    14        detail.  I was going to ask you a general question about
    15        them, or two.
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    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you have the reference, Mr. Rampton?
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    19   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, yes.  It is at the back of Mr. Bowes'
    20        statement which is yellow IX at tab 7, I think it is.  Do
         you have them?
    22        A.  I have them here.  I think they are the ones.
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    24   Q.   Those show, whatever method is used -- we may have to come
    25        back to that -- do they not, two things, that the impedance
    26        or the resistance measured was around 170 to 178 ohms, was
    27        it not?
    28        A.  The point that I have just made means that the
    29        impedance would seem to be less, unless I had further
    30        evidence, because the current, if you like, was finding an
    31        easier pathway to go from one electrode to the other.
    32        I have mentioned the day before yesterday the electrodes
    33        should be moist with brine -- that is quite true -- so they
    34        make very good contact with the skin, but between those
    35        electrodes everything should be dry, if you are going to
    36        get a reasonable result.
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    38        Now, you have asked me about these.  I am a little bit
    39        perplexed because these experiments seem to have started
    40        two years ago in conjunction with Dr. Neville Gregory.
         Then the actual experiments are dated, well, in January
    42        1993.  They were not, apparently, communicated until
    43        February 1995, that is last month, and in some part of the
    44        evidence that Mr. Bowes gave he talked about financial
    45        cramp at some stage which puzzled me a bit, but there seems
    46        to be some difference in opinion over the impedance with
    47        what Dr. Gregory assessed.  300 he said, this gives 171.
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    49   Q.   Dr. Long, you will have noticed that Dr. Gregory made an
    50        assumption of the impedance. 
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    52   MS. STEEL:  Can I make an interruption?   I am not happy about 
    53        Mr. Rampton saying "what these documents show" because I do
    54        not accept they are admissible.
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    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You made that point yesterday or the day
    57        before.  I have taken it on board.
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    59   MS. STEEL:  They do say "sheep".
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