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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    iloget,—to Doctors Sims, Soutliej, Buchan, Davis, anti Scudamore ; to Messrs. Cooper, Pear- son, Blair, Sir William Adams, Maule, Ogle, Hill, Anderson, Andree, Tarrat, Pennington, and James. Here it cannot be improper to offer a caution or two to those who may hereafter become pa- tients—first, to beware of the effects of deferring the application of a remedy, which, in the first stages of the disorder would cure, but which, when tried as a dernier resort, might only relieve. Second, the sooner applied after the attack of dis- ease, the sooner is the relief afforded, and the cure effected. Third, to dismiss from the mind all apprehension of pain and danger, either from Electricity, Galvanism, Factituous Airs, or the Air-pump Vapour-bath; all of which are, by a peculiar mode of application, rendered in many cases rather agreeable to the feelings, and in many more, so gentle, that an infant at the breast will leceive no painful sensation from their use. As there are various cases which daily present themselves to my notice, for the cure of which electricity, galvanism, and the medical gases, are powerfully efficacious, I now employ these agents at home, from the hours of eleven and five, the and Vapour-bath at my own house, which affords ample accomodation for those patients who may for the night prefer placing themselves under my own roof; or otherwise, by appoint- ment at their own residence, 7 act agreeably to