To John Chapman 16 May [1865]
Summary
Asks JC to pay him a professional visit at Down to consider whether the ice treatment would apply to his case. Describes his sickness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Chapman |
| Date: | 16 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4834 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Chapman visited CD at Down House on 20 May 1865. Chapman’s treatment consisted in the application of ice, placed in a specially designed ice-bag, on the spine. For a discussion of this treatment, see Colp 1977 , pp. 82–4. CD’s Account book–cash account (Down House MS) records a payment of £10 10 s. to ‘D r Chapman’ on 20 May 1865. CD had been seriously ill with a stomach disorder for parts of 1863 …
