The murder of Catherine Eddowes being in the City of London meant ofcourse that it was Dr Brown, the City police surgeon ,whose testimony was the most important on this occasion.
Phillips, Sequeria and Saunders were all equally competent medical officials, and they all detected appreciably less skill than Brown did. If you examine the preponderance of medical evidence from the Eddowes inquest, there is a great deal more to be said for an operator without much anatomical knowledge, and certainly not "surgical skill".
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