Homoeopathy and its principles explained / [John Epps].

  • John Epps
Date:
1850
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    ness’s opinion that entire abstinence from food is essential to the successful SECT. V treatment of cholera, and of the typhus fever, which frequently follows it: that witness can speak to the marked success which has attended the homoeopathic treatment of cholera: that from witness’s experience as an allopathist, when connected with a large fever hospital in Dublin, he has frequently known nurses dismissed for allowing patients, in typhus and other fevers, much less pernicious food and in less quantity than that given to the deceased: that witness is perfectly satisfied that serious mischief must have resulted from what was given to the deceased : that any intelligent and honest practitioner of the old school would judge in this particular the same at witness, William Docksey will testify that he was a patient of Dr. Epps : That he had been treated at Guy’s Hospital, but without any benefit: that he had afterwards been treated by a surgeon, in Commercial-road, but became worse: he, in August, 1849, came under Dr. Epps’s care, and he improved till Sept. 3rd, when he was much worse again; Dr. E. inquired whether he had had any great trouble to cause him to be worse; he told Dr. E. that lie had just buried his daughter, aged 26, who had died of cholera, and one of his grandchildren was lying dead of cholera, and another was dying, if not dead. William Docksey will testify that he stated to Dr. Epps, that the surgeons (two attended) gave the three patients some medicines to stop the purgings and the vomitings, and they never recovered their senses after taking the medicines. Dr. E. told him, on reaching home, to exa- mine the children not buried, and see if they really were dead, as perhaps they were only in a stupor from opium. The same day, William Dock- sey will testify, he, with his son-in-law, the father of the children, came back to Dr. Epps, and stated that one of the children, namely, Nathaniel Cannon,was alive; although the surgeons who attended the child told the parent, on the Saturday preceding the Monday when William Docksey saw Dr. E., to give the child no more medicine, as it was of no use: that the child’s death might be expected every minute: he could not live a few hours. William Docksey will testify that Dr. E. prescribed for the child, and though during the treatment he never saw the child, the child was cured, and is now in perfect health : and that the child took no food hat cocoa for seven days* William Brewer, Fort-place, Grange-road, Bermondsey, will testify that he has been captain of an East Indiaman: that he has been several times to India: that he has seen much of the Indian cholera : that he himself * Additional particulars of this case arc recorded in the Journal of Health and Disease and Monthly Journal of Homoeopathy for October, 1849, p. 99. Messrs. Piper, late Sherwood and Co., Paternoster-row. R R