Observations on the properties of the air-pump vapour-bath, in the cure of gout, rheumatism, palsy, etc. : with occasional remarks on the efficacy of galvanism, in disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels, with some new and remarkable cases / by M. La Beaume.

  • La Beaume, Michael.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Observations on the properties of the air-pump vapour-bath, in the cure of gout, rheumatism, palsy, etc. : with occasional remarks on the efficacy of galvanism, in disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels, with some new and remarkable cases / by M. La Beaume. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    practitioners, however, who from con- temptible prejudices, not perhaps wholly unmixed with feeling's of selfishness, have by significant shrugs and scarcely articu- late murmurs, contrived to convey their dissent from the opinions promulgated in the Pamphlet, in which I felt it my duty to allude to the known inefficacy of the Materia Medico., in a variety of human maladies—a truth, but too well attested by the ravages of disease, and the hopeless wailings of suffering humanity, to be con- cealed from even the most superficial ob- server. Yet an exposition of the inaptness and inefficacy of the remedies in common use, would have been of little or no benefit to mankind, unless I could at the same time, have produced a mccedaneum, that would be of greater advantage to the af- flicted. This w as my chief object, and this I endeavoured to accomplish, by recommend- ing the Air-Pump Vapour-Bath, Medical