Homoeopathy and its principles explained / [John Epps].

  • Epps, John, 1805-1869.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Homoeopathy and its principles explained / [John Epps]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. SEC 1. V. witness sent to request he would prescribe for him. Witness had dysentery: that he did not then know that Dr. Ivelsall was a homoeopathist: that when witness was convalescing, Dr. Kelsall accidentally called, and just before he arrived, witness’s wife had been attacked with unequivocal symptoms of cholera, i. e. collapse: that Dr. Kelsall took charge of wit- ness’s wife’s case, gave her only homoeopathic medicines: that she was dangerously ill, and Dr. Kelsall allowed her to take no aliment whatever during seven days, except plain water, a teaspoonful at a time: that it is witness’s firm conviction that his wife would have died, had she taken any food during the time it was forbidden; and, although she frequently desired food, and said she should be starved, it was not granted: that witness’s wife’s health has been exceedingly delicate for at least fifteen years, and that she is not a likely subject to bear starvation ; but, that she certainly benefited by seven days total abstinence from food, William Alexander Hills, No. 10, Grove-road, Palmer’s village, West- minster, will prove: That he was taken ill with cholera, on Wednesday, 5th Sept. 1849: that he was attended by Dr. Curie from that day: that from that day until Sunday, the 30th Sept. 1849, (twenty-five days), witness took no food : that the only thing which witness did take during that time was iced-water, and water in which toast had been immersed, and the medicines prescribed by Dr. Curie : that he so abstained from food by the advice of Dr. Curie : that on Sunday, the 30th Sept. 1849, he took only some beef-tea, and that he took it at first only in small quantities, one spoonful of beef-tea to two of water, and even that was oppressive to him. E. H. Gould, 70, Lombard-street, will state : That the prisoner (C. T. Pearce), attended witness’s wife while labouring under an attack of Asiatic cholera : that when the prisoner was called in she was considered in great danger, she had violent cramps and vomitings: that the prisoner kept her without food for four days : that after that, he only allowed her to take very small quantities at first, only a teaspoonful of water twice or thrice in an hour : that the collapse state of cholera was followed by fever and wandering of mind: that witness with the consent of the prisoner called in Dr. Epps, who approved of the prisoner’s treatment: that nei- ther witness nor his wife had previously any faith in homoeopathy: that so rapid was witness’s wife’s improvement under the prisoner’s treatment, that although not expected to survive many hours on the 27th Sept., she on the 4th of October, paid a visit to a relative, three miles distant from her home. Jenny S., governess in the family of the Earl of Wilton, ITeaton-park, Manchester, will state : That she is a native of Switzerland, and that she left that country about seven years, to accompany the family of the Che- valier Bunsen, to England : that shortly after her arrival in England she