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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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.

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    [Case, No. 15.] I have been to Denmark-hill to inquire into the case of cholera reported to you as one without pre- monitory symptoms, which had occurred on the 30th October, 1853, and I have seen the master of the house and the medical attendant. The master of the house informed me that the gentleman who had died of cholera had dined ^vith him the day before, and remained with the family in the evening; that he appeared in good health, and went to bed at his usual hour ; that in the morning, when he came to breakfast, he appeared so ill that he requested him to go to bed; and the gentleman then informed him, that at about six o'clock he had had a very copious liquid stool, and again in about an hour; and, subsequently, a third and fom-th. The master of the house immediately sent for medical advice, and by the time the medical attendant arrived (at eleven o'clock), the patient was then labouring under spasms, vomitings, etc. The medical attendant informed me that he had not inquired when the diarrhoea had come on, or when the spasms, vomitings, etc., first attacked his patient; that he found him at the moment of his arrival sinking; and that he was so occupied with doing what he could to avert the fatal blow, that it escaped him to make the above inquiry. However, we have the testimony of the master of the house, that some time elapsed from the first hquid stool till the first symptoms of spasms, etc. Whether the diarrhoea began at six o'clock in the morning^ and the spasms at ten o'clock, is immaterial. The patient did not labour under spasms at nine o'clock
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