Homoeopathy and its principles explained / [John Epps].

  • John Epps
Date:
1850
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    days delirious, but that when the malignity of the disease had abated, she SECT, rapidly recovered, and soon attained her usual strength. Itev. I. Wise is a Baptist minister, residing at 34, St. John’s-wood-ter- race, will state: That his wife was attended by the prisoner, (Mr. C. T. Pearce,) for an attack of Asiatic cholera: That the patient was violently attacked with diarrhoea on 11th Sept. 1849; the prisoner attended her, and prohibited her from taking food, and the vomitings, which had been very violent, ceased for the whole of that day; but upon afterwards taking food, it increased, and continued to increase until the 20th September, when cramps and other aggravated symptoms set in : that witness immediately sought the prisoner, who had himself been suffering under an attack of cholera, from which he had not recovered ; but at witness’s urgent entreaty, the prisoner came to visit his wife, and immediately forbid all food, except water in teaspoonsfull: that the patient recovered under the prisoner’s treatment: that witness had been previously much opposed to homoeop- athy : that witness’s wife’s case was the more dangerous, as she has been a great sufferer, from an internal disease, for sixteen or seventeen years. Henry Legrand, 2, Bridge-place, Southwark-bridge-road, agent, will state : That he was taken ill a few days before Michaelmas-day, 1849, with typhus fever and diarrhoea: that he was attended by Dr. Curie, and by his direction was kept ten days without food except gum and toast water: that, after the ten days, when very light food was given to witness, it made him ill again. Emma Munden : That witness was attended by the prisoner for an attack of Asiatic cholera: that by the prisoner’s directions, witness was kept with- out food entirely for four days, and that for four days more she scarcely took anything : that witness recovered from the attack, which was a very violent one; witness’s husband had previously recovered from an attack of cholera under the prisoner’s treatment; while her sister, who had been treated according to the old system, died from cholera. Ann Hoy, 1G, Boston-place, Dorset-square, will state: That she was attended by the prisoner for an attack of Asiatic cholera, and, by his direc- tions, was kept without food for several days, although witness had a great craving for food: that witness recovered from the attack under the pri- soner’s care: that witness was at first treated by the old system, but finding herself getting much worse, her friends became alarmed, and then called in Mr. Pearce. Mrs. Hookway, 5, Begent-street, Dovor-road, will state: The patient was attended by Dr. Kelsall: that her son, aged twelve years, was attacked with Asiatic cholera on the 13th Sept. 1849, and that from that day to the 23rd Sept. 1849, (eleven days,) he took no food whatever, except on one occasion: that that occasion was on the 18th Sept., when a teaspoonful of