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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    diarrhoea previous to the attack of spasms, vomit- ing, etc. Therefore we are left with the certainty only, that this woman was ill when she went to bed,—with what, no one inquired ; and if we cannot say it was with a premonitory diarrhoea, the medical gentleman was not justified in certifying to you, without inquiry, that she had no premonitory diarrhoea. [Case, No. 19.] In your Weekly Returns for Dec. 31st, 1853, a woman is reported to have died at No. 1, Claremont- place, Pentonville, on the 21st December, of cholera, without any premonitory diarrhoea. I have been there, and I have seen the lady with whom this woman hved, and the medical attendant. From the lady I learn, that she was a thin, spare, weak, and nervous person, aged fifty-four; that she was subject to spasms in her bowels, for which she was in the habit of taking purgative medicine,—to carry off, she said, the bile. That on the morning of the 19th December, she had one of her usual attacks of spasms in her stomach and bowels. That as she was of a costive habit, and was accustomed to take a smart purgative to relieve the spasms, she took without medical advice, a large table spoonfiil of castor oil. This not having acted, in the evening she took again, without medical advice, a dose,—a blue pill five grains, and a black draught, salts and senna. That all these purgatives did not begin to act till ten o'clock next morning, when her bowels were repeatedly relieved. She thought herself better.