Homoeopathy and its principles explained / [John Epps].

  • John Epps
Date:
1850
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    had a violent attack of illness, and was placed under Dr. Curie’s care : that SECT. V witness was kept thirty days without any food except as after mentioned: that during the first fourteen days witness took nothing but sugared-water, that for the next fourteen days she took nothing but plain 'water, that at the end of the twenty-eight days as witness appeared somewhat better, Dr. Curie gave her three small spoonsfulls of Gelee de Yiande, which occa- sioned a relapse, and she was again for ten days in indescribable agony: that witness was in so weak a state when first placed under Dr. Curie’s care, that he gave her food and persisted in doing so until witness became much worse, and she then began to abstain from food and continued to do so, as before stated: that witness ultimately recovered under Dr. Curie’s treatment, and has since enjoyed good health, while before she had been for several years on a bed of sickness, excepting only short periods of con- valescence, during one of which she came to England, as before stated. Samuel 13ee, 11, Kent-place, Old Kent-road, shoemaker, will state: That witness had an attack of Asiatic cholera on the 19th August, 1849, and was attended by Dr. Kelsall: that witness was by the Dr.’s directions kept without food for thirteen days, viz., from the 19th to the 31st August, except as after stated : that during the whole time witness craved in- cessantly for food and said he was being starved, but for the last three days, as witness began to get better, the craving diminished ; that when witness was craving for food his wife gave him (but against the Dr.’s direc- tions) about a wine-glass of weak milk and water, and on another occa- sion the doctor yielded to the ui’gent entreaty of witness’s brother, to allow him to take two teaspoonsfull of weak brandy and water, but he forewarned witness of the effects wThich would follow the taking of it: that on both occasions after taking the milk and water and the brandy and water wit- ness felt much worse, all the symptoms were aggravated, and after taking the brandy and water witness thought he should have died : that the cholera was worse in the neighbourhood of witness’s residence than any other part of London, and many of witness’s neighbours, who were treated by the ordinary doctors, died, and witness believed that he also should have died if he had been treated by them. Mrs. Matilda Shaw, 3, Wellington-place, Kent-road, will state: That witness had an attack of Asiatic cholera in August, 1849, and was attended by Dr. Kelsall: that witness by the doctor’s advice abstained from food for ten days, and during that time took nothing but water, except the medi- cines prescribed by Dr. Kelsall, until the tenth day, when witness was allowed to take two teaspoonsfull of beef-tea: that witness’s husband had also an attack of cholera and was kept by Dr. Kelsall without food for five days: that both witness and her husband had at first a desire for food, but Dr. Kelsall would not allow any to be given, and the desire afterwards Q, Q 2