Observations on the properties of the air-pump vapour-bath, pointing out their efficacy in the cure of gout, rheumatism, palsy, &c. : With cursory remarks on factitious airs, and on the improved state of medical electricity, in all its branches, particularly in that of galvanism, and their efficacy in various diseases / by M. La Beaume.

  • La Beaume, Michael.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on the properties of the air-pump vapour-bath, pointing out their efficacy in the cure of gout, rheumatism, palsy, &c. : With cursory remarks on factitious airs, and on the improved state of medical electricity, in all its branches, particularly in that of galvanism, and their efficacy in various diseases / by M. La Beaume. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G7 dormant powers. It is my practice to mark the immediate effects and subsequent results, by the expression of the eye and of the countenanc?e— by varying the mode of operation according to the feelings of the patient—^by making minute enquiries as to the effects felt from time to time —a mode, which, of all others, is the best adapt- ed to procure the instructive counsels cf nature^ in all cases the best and most unerring guide. It has been an object of my most anxious attention to provide machines of the greatest powers.— Apparatus, in all respects completely adapted to every possible purpose, and which, after much labour and expence, I have the satisfaction to know I have so fully accomplished, that I can produce effects by my mode of operation, much more efficacious than the violence of shocks, with- out subjecting the patient to either dread or danger.