Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system : their nature, causes, and treatment : also, a series of cases, preceded by an analytical exposition of them, exemplifying the principles and practice of neuro-dynamic medicine / by John Chapman.

  • John Chapman
Date:
1873
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    Diseases of Women,* showing that those diseases originate in the nervous system, and are wonderful!)^ controllable by the Neuro- dynamic method of treatment. The whole edition of the work was soon called for, and the book has now remained several years out of print, because, desirous of testing and showing the ap- plicability of that method in other departments of disease, I have not had time to prepare a new edition. In 18G4 appeared the first edition of the work on Sea-sickness,i- which explained the genesis of the disease, proved it to be a disorder of the nervous system, and, by the reports of a series of experiments, also proved that that terrible malady is preventible and curable by the Neuro- dynamic method. In about three years the whole edition of that work was disposed of, and a second, enlarged, edition, containing reports of many additional experiments, which was published in 1868, is already nearly exhausted. The first edition of the work on Diarrhoea and Cholera, showing that the proximate cause of those diseases is seated in the nervous system, and that they too are in a pre-eminent degree curable by the Neuro-dynamic method, was issued in 1865, and was reprinted in the United States. The demand for the whole of the English edition within a year induced me to publish the full and elaborate exposition of my views concerning the pathology, etiology, and treatment of Diarrhoea and Cholera, which appeared in 1866. Moreover, I have been informed by the publishers of the Medical Press and Circular that the papers on Epilepsy and Paralysis, in which I showed how successfully those diseases may be treated by the Neuro-dynamic method, caused the numbers of that Journal, in which they appeared, to go quite out of print. I apprehend that a large proportion of these books and papers were bought by members of the medical profession—a fact constituting, as I venture to think, indubitable evidence that an interest in the principles, at all events, of Neuro-dynamic Medicine has already been awakened in a considerable number of medical men ; and * Functional Diseases of Women : Cases illustrative of a New Method of treating them through the Agency of the j^ervous System by means of Cold and Heat. Also an Appendix containing Cases illustrative of a New Method of treating Epilepsy, Paralysis, and Diabetes. London: 1863. ■]• Sea-sickness: its Nature and Treatment. London: 1864. A 2