Verdict of coroners' juries : the case of the late Mr. Cordwell / by P. F. Curie.

  • Curie, Paul Francis, 1799-1853.
Date:
1845
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    THE CASE OF MR. HENRY CORDWELL, AGED 29. PHTHISIS AND CHRONIC AFFECTION OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES. Mr. CoEDWELL first consulted me on the 19th of October, 1844. I had never seen him before. He was of a nervous temperament, anxious, and irritable. He stated that he had never known sound health ; that in 1834 he had been attacked with diarrhoea, which lasted an entire twelve- month ; and that for a long time he had been troubled with frequent dyspepsia accompanied by nervousness and fainting fits. Also, that he had several times suffered from gonorrhoea, which had only been subdued by strong remedies. He mentioned especially that his health had declined since the year 1837. In the month of April he had had a rather severe attack of haemo- ptysis, which was succeeded by vomiting of blood. He was, more- over, very subject to bleeding from the nose, and in the preceding year had undergone the application of caustic to remove an ulcer in the throat. During the long period of his ill-health he had placed himself under several practitioners, but he was unable to give the details of their respective treatment. He remarked, however, that he had taken a great deal of medicine; and that, finding himself daily getting worse instead of better, he had recourse to hydropathy, from which, not finding the hoped-for relief, he came as a last resource to consult me with the view of being treated homceopathically. From his general appearance ; the expression of his couu-