Cholera, a disease of the nervous system / by John Chapman ; [followed by] Reviews of Dr. Chapman's work on diarrhœa and cholelra.
- Chapman, John
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Cholera, a disease of the nervous system / by John Chapman ; [followed by] Reviews of Dr. Chapman's work on diarrhœa and cholelra. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![producing reaction from the state of collapse, leaving the patient free from the very large quantities of medicines which in other modes of cure so fatally hamper the treatment of the secondary fever.”—G. A. Baku, M.1)., Surgeon to the Royal South Hants Infirmary, &c. <&c. “ The five cases in which I had the good fortune of witnessing the application of the spinal ice-bags by you, have sufficiently convinced me of their utility in rousing the patients from collapse and removing the algide symptoms of cholera.”—G. Cheeseman, Physician ancl District Medical Officer to the Southampton Incorporation. “ The power [of the treatment in question] to relieve the vomiting, purging, and cramps is almost marvellous; and its influence over the circulation, in restoring heat to the suiface of the body, and in bringing back the pulse where nearly, and in some cases entirely, gone, must be seen in order to be properly appreciated. “For my own part, I have such entire confidence in the method of treatment that should any more cases of cholera come under my care, I shall without hesitation trust to it alone ; and were I to be attacked with cholera, I would insist on being treated entirely by your method.”—Henry Bencraft, M.B.C.S.A., L.S.A., Medical Officer to the Southampton Workhouse. “I have now seen and treated, with Mr. Bencraft and Dr. Cheeseman, six cases of cholera, in the stage of collapse; and what I have witnessed and noted in these cases justifies me in stating that your treatment is superior to any that I have hitherto seen practised or pursued by myself or others. “ Based as your treatment is on sound physiological principles, it deserves a fair and impartial trial; but all your injunctions must be strictly carried out. “ Were I seized with cholera, I should give your mode of treatment a preference ; indeed, I would submit to no other.”— John Wiblin, Physician. In July, 1866, after a further experience of the treatment in question, Mr. Bencraft again expressed to me his conclusions respecting it as follows:—“ If I were attacked with cholera I should still wish to be treated with ice ; but I should like to have it applied earlier than seemed to me necessary last year.” And at the same time Dr. Griffin said to me : “ It stops the cramps, vomiting, and purging; it makes the patients warm, and it](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30578322_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
