Gymnastics, an essential branch of national education, both public and private : the only remedy to improve the present physical condition of man / by Captain Chiosso.

  • Chiosso, James, 1789-1864.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Gymnastics, an essential branch of national education, both public and private : the only remedy to improve the present physical condition of man / by Captain Chiosso. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    he went to his work at half-past six, and returned at eight o'clock. To resume: there was therefore an interval of about four hours from the first hquid motion to the first attack of spasms, etc., and in the interval the man was able to go to his work; consequently he was not in a state of collapse from the first. [Case, No. 12.] At No. 1, Norfolk-place, St. James's, Bermondsey, a child, three years old, is reported in your Weekly Return of the 29th October, to have been found by her mother, on the morning of the 17th October, passing rice-water evacuations, and having had no premonitory symptoms. I have seen the mother of this child, and she in- forms me that the child went to school all day; that she was not aware that she had had a diarrhoea the day before ; that on the morning of the 17th October, at about two o'clock, the child had a passage in her bowels, and again another about half an hour after, and a third a short time after this, when she fell asleep and slept soundly till about seven o'clock, when she had a fourth evacuation. The mother then observed that the evacuation contained very little faecal matter; that she then sent for the medical attendant, who came and prescribed for the child at about nine o'clock; that, however, the diarrhoea persisted, the child having a liquid watery evacuation about every two or three hours for two days and a half, when the spasms, etc., came on, and she died on the eighth day from the time she had the first hquid stool on the morning of the 17th October.