On the Portable Sudatory, or hot-air-bath; with cases illustrative of its medical powers in various disorders, and its great utility in cholera morbus, with directions for its administration; together with remarks on the applicability of galvanism in the first stage of that disease / By M. La Beaume, medical-galvanist and electrician in ordinary to the King.

  • La Beaume, Michael.
Date:
1832
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Credit: On the Portable Sudatory, or hot-air-bath; with cases illustrative of its medical powers in various disorders, and its great utility in cholera morbus, with directions for its administration; together with remarks on the applicability of galvanism in the first stage of that disease / By M. La Beaume, medical-galvanist and electrician in ordinary to the King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vigorates the declining frame, arresting the progress of disease, and augmenting the mass of human felicity.”—- European Magazine, for January 1820, page 58. “ The practice adopted by Mr. La Beaume, is highly respectable, and the thanks of the profession and of the public are equally due to him, for taking up a remedy (Galvanism) which has been much neglected, and by those members of the profession who are acquainted with it, and capable of appreciating its merits, from a knowledge of the animal economy, is allowed to be a most important one.”—Monthly Gazette of Healthy for November, 1818, page 1085. “ We must do Mr. La Beaume the justice to say, that neither in this remedy, the Air-pump Vapour-bath, nor in Galvanism, does he trust to its topical effects. Like a skilful physician, whose anxious wish is to cure his patients, he takes into consideration the state of the ge¬ neral health, and the peculiarities of the constitutions of his patients; and it is in such hands only, that such powerful topical remedies can be employed with safety and effect.”—Monthly Gazette of Health, for December, 1810, page 365. “ We esteem it a most fortunate event that Mr. La Beaume, whose abilities and assiduity eminently qualify him for the undertaking, should have directed his atten¬ tion to this important branch of the healing art.”—- Gazette of Health, for June, 1820, page 535. “ Mr. La Beaume’s work is written both for medical