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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES OF BIAEEHCEA AND CHOLERA TREATED SUCCESSFULLY THROUGH THE AGENCY OE THE KERVOUS SYSTEM, CHIEFLY BY MEANS OF THE SPINAL SGE-BAG, 8vo, cloth, price 2s. . . . . The author having proposed his method of treatment, has in the next place to deter- mine its actual vahie in practice; he accordingly completes his case by bringing forward a large body of evidence to show that his method, when carried out bj' attendants with the minute care he has a right to enjoin upon them, is, if not uniformly at any rate very largely successful We nMst sail that his statements are haclced by vert/ strong evidence used icith much knoifledge and skill—so much so, indeed, that they cannot he overlooked, but claim our instant attention. . . . We cannot hut be pleased to think that the evidence is most strong in szipport of that one position in loldcli, ice are viost immediately interested—namely, that theice treatment is successful. This surely is the main point, and in the face of the miserable results obtained under the use of other methods, we cannot but form a favourable estimate of the alternative treatment here proposed And although we fortunately have no experience of cholera thus treated, yet in fairness to Dr. Chapman, we ought to say that we have found the ice-bag very useful in some other disorders. For example, we have found it strikingly successful in maniacal conditions, when applied to the cervieal region; in sympathetic vomiting likewise, and in some other conditions too numerous now to mention.—Medical Times and Gazette, Feb. 17, 1872. Dr. Chapman has the undoubted merit of originating a system of treatment which we believe is of great practical value. We are satisiied of the truth of his assertion, that the condition of the viscera of the thoraz and abdomen can be modified to a considerable extent by the external application of heat and cold to the spine. We have ourselves observed the advantages of Dr. Chapman's method of treatment in sea-siokness. In the stages of bronchitis where the breathing is drj' and tubular. Dr. Chapman's hot- water bag often causes marked relief, and the increased secretion of mucus from the bronchial tubes seems to be proved by the greater softness of the breathing which may be ascertained to follow in a few minutes by auscultation The pamphlet is in a readable form, and shows both great scientific knowledge and practical sagacity.—Mediccd Press and Circular. A readable and persuasive pamphlet. We should like to see Dr. Chapman's views fully tested.— Edinburgh MedicalJournal, July, 1872. LONDON: BAILLIERE, TINDALL & COX, 20, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND. )Q[ • Their History and Use during Childbirth. [^Reprinted, with Additions, from tJie Westminster Eevieto''' for January, 1859.] Sro, price Is. '' The special object of the Westminster reviewer is to combat the prejudices, religious as well as phj'siological, which still exists against the use of anffisthetics in parturition.—The Press. A searching article, very useful to confirm and guide the wavering,—Spectator. Exhibits very strikingly how in this, as in many other cases, mankind had been from time to time on the very verge of beneficent discovery without accomplishing the last step into the light.''—Tiin Scotsman. In the article on au8?sthetic medicines, the discovery, the virtues, the progress, the position, and moral effects of Chloroform and other similar matters are treated in full detail. The article, in fact, very nearly exhausts the subject. The question of the effect on the cerebral and nervous S5'stems is treated at once medically and popularly, and made much more intelligible than in any other essay we have met Vv'ith which attempts to enter into technical details.—Morning Chronicle. Treats the history of anresthetical agents in a verj' interesting manner, tlie whole concluding with .an able reply to the many objections which have been urged against the practice of an»sthesia during childbirth.—York Herald. The writer first gives an historical account of the use of anfosthetic agents—notices objections to their cmplojTiient, and defends their use in a calm, moderate, scientific manner.—Bradford Revieic. '• In the article on Chloroform, v,'e learn how extensively this blessed substance has already entered into medical and surgical practice, and how vehemently it has besn opposed by those whom Dr. Cbaluiers called ' small theologians' on the ground that it was conti-ary to Scripture, especially vn cases of mid- wifery.—Bradford Observer.