Homoeopathy and its principles explained / [John Epps].

  • John Epps
Date:
1850
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    SECT. V. fifteen actions of the bowels and that he was in a very weak condition: that he ordered him a glass of brandy, followed with beef-tea, after which he had milk and water given him, and brandy repeated together with stimulant medicines. The diarrhoea was checked but he died the following morning. On my interrogating him as to the post-mortem appearances, he said he found the right side of the heart congested, lungs congested, liver and kidneys also congested, gall-bladder empty, and urinary-bladder empty. He had only time to ‘just look’ at the viscera, he said, and the stomach he handed to his son to examine. The intestines, he said, were empty, but he did not open them. The time was short, he said, for he had a sudden notice on the day of the inquest, to make the post-mortem ex- amination, it was then 2 o’clock, and the jury was to sit a quarter before 4; in fact, said he, the body was so offensive, I was glad to hurry out of the room. The brain he had not examined nor any part of the nervous system. On questioning him as to the appearances presented after death from cholera, I found his knowledge very limited, but he thought the congested organs indicated cholera. I questioned him so closely as to his know- ledge of anatomy, that he admitted that when he was a student, subjects cost about £18 each, and hence beyond his reach. He at parting begged as a favor, that I -would refrain from mentioning our conversation, or that we had had the interview.” Catherine Stedman, 8, Belmont-row, Nine Elms, Vauxhall, will state : That she was in a situation as servant with Mr. Whimple, 20, Canterbury- place, Lambeth, was attacked with cholera in September last, was treated by the medical man of the family, viz., Mr. Colombel, residing at Lambeth- road. After two days her mother was sent for, but Mrs. Whimple tried to prevent her being treated homocopathically. The mother, however, per- sisted, and she was taken home on a bed in a coach, and placed under the care of Dr. Epps. She abstained from taking anything but medicine and a very little cocoa, about half a pint, until the Sunday following, when feel- ins' much better she was induced to take a little toast and cocoa, and a O very small piece of very light pudding. On Monday morning at 4, she was worse than ever, she was then eight days without tasting anything but the medicine, a little cocoa and cold water. She is now recovered and is perfectly persuaded that she would have died had she not been treated homceopathically, that is, refrained from food. A sister was seventeen days without tasting anything, by direction of Dr. Epps, but this was not a case of cholera. Edward Cronin, M.D., Loughborough-road, Brixton, will state: That he has been in India and Persia for some years as a medical man, and whilst in those countries, and also during the late visitation here, has been called largely to attend cases of cholera of the worst kind: that it is wit-