An account of the new and successful treatment of indigestion, bilious and nervous complaints, deafness, blindness, etc / by M. La Beaume ... with cases to prove the medical efficacy of his portable sudatory or warm-air bath.

  • La Beaume, Michael.
Date:
1821
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Credit: An account of the new and successful treatment of indigestion, bilious and nervous complaints, deafness, blindness, etc / by M. La Beaume ... with cases to prove the medical efficacy of his portable sudatory or warm-air bath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    functions, and I am now as well as I can expect to be, on just approaching the age of seventy. December 4,1818. C. M. Extract of a Letter from I). W , Esq. Surgeon, late of Leatherhead, to the Editors of the Gazette of Health. Sirs,—I beg to transmit to you three import- ant cases of the successful practice of Galvan- ism and the Air-pump Vapour-bath, which have occurred under my immediate personal ob- servation, and which afford abundant proofs of the utility of those remedies so little known to the faculty and to the public. Hoping their in- sertion in your numbers will be as useful to the afflicted, as it is honourable to the practitioner. I am, Sirs, Your most obedient humble Sevant, D. W. June 16, 1819. Mr W. S—, about forty years of age, of a phelgmatic temperament, and of sedentary habits, stated to me that his general health had been very good previous to an attack of acute rheumatism about twelve years ago, which con- fined him to bed for six months. After his recovery from that disease, his digestion became much affected, his bowels constipated, and the