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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![64 [Case, No. 20.] I have been to No. 2, Goodwin-buildings, White- chapel, and I have seen the widow of the man reported in your Weekly Returns of the 24th De- cember, as a death from malignant cholera, with- out any premonitory symptoms. She informed me that her husband had, eight years ago, a severe injury in his back; that in consequence he had for some weeks a severe pain in his back and left knee; that subsequently the pain attacked his left instep ; that every year since he was, in the autumn, subject to pain in that instep; that for the last six months he frequently complained of the pain in his instep, and that he frequently was lame in con- sequence ; that the day he was taken ill he was in his usual state of health and spirits; that he went to bed at his usual hour, but that at about one o'clock the next morning he awoke, complaining of great pain in his instep, in the same place where he usually felt pain; that the pain went on increasing; that she bathed the instep with vinegar and brandy; that after a short time the pain suddenly ceased in his instep, and that immediately her husband began to breathe quick, and he said that the pain of the instep had gone to his heart; he had now a slight motion, and vomited once, but only phlegm; that she then sent for the medical attendant, and her husband died twenty-four hours after he first was taken ill. He had no diarrhoea, no spasms, no vomiting, except one of a little phlegm ; that he passed his urine freely ; that his voice did not appear weak till a few minutes before death; that no part of his body turned blue before death, and that his countenance after death was calm,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21477711_0130.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
