Sea-sickness and how to prevent it : an explanation of its nature and successful treatment, through the agency of the nervous system, by means of the spinal ice-bag : with an introduction on the general principles of neuro-therapeutics / by John Chapman.

  • Chapman, John, 1821-1894.
Date:
1868
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    PREFACE. The call for a second edition of tins book has given me an op- portunity of improving- it in three' respeets: first, the intro- ductory exposition of those novel pathological and therapeutical doctrines -which my method of preventing or curing sea- sickness praetieally illustrates^ is far more complete than it -was in the first edition; secondly, I have added a section on the Phvsiology of Vomiting; and, thirdly, the number of cases ■which I have adduced in evidence of the reality of my diseovery of a remedy for the disease which has hitherto been the terror of the great majority of travellers by sea, is more than double that of those published in the first edition. The time is not yet come for the publication, or even the preparation of a systematic work on Neuro-therapeutics; for the principles and praetice of healing intended to be implied by that term need first to be experimentally illustrated in respect to several groups of diseases in the treatment of which they are applieable, but whieh have not yet been treated by suitable appli- cations of cold or heat to the spine. Meanwhile, as the intro- ductory section of this work contains an explicit statement of the principles in question, and a considerable array of evidence from independent medieal observers, both of the truth of those prinei- ples and of the groat and widely-extensive remedial power which has been developed from them, it will, I hope, be found a suffi- cient guide and eneouragement to suoh professional inquirers as may desire to acquaint themselves theoretically and practically with the therapeutical method in question.