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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    some time in doubt and suspense, but finding my practice daily increase, and conscious that I had made some im- portant discoveries in the applicability, as well as the Modus Operandi of Gal- vanism, in Dyspepsia, Chronic Hepatites, and Asthma, I yielded to the solicitations of my patients and friends, and published this work, written chiefly on the powers of the Air-Pump Vapour-Bath, but con- , taining also cursory and explanatory ob- servations on other subjects. When I sent the first edition of this pamphlet to the press, it was not so much from my own experience of the beneficial powers of the Air-pump Vapour-Bath, that I so strongly recommended its use : but chiefly from a thorough persuasion, that the extraordinary cures cited in the work alluded to, were of themselves quite sufficient, to entitle it to rank among