Practical observations on chronic affections of the digestive organs, and on bilious and nervous disorders : being an attempt to combine with English practice some useful methods of cure employed on the continent : also remarks on warm mineral baths, mineral waters in general, and on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters.

  • Thomas, John.
Date:
1821
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    suffer me to publish in detail, where females of the highest respectability, whose conduct was irreproachable, had laboured under a train of what are usually termed nervous disorders, and who, on examination, had been found to have the os et cervix uteri considerably indurated, and have been per- fectly cured by the sole use of these baths. Mr. Viguerie, of Toulouse, well known to most of the medical men who were attached to the Duke of Wellington's army, as an eminent surgeon, and Mr. Duclos, professor of midwifery at Toulouse, have seen and examined, at my request, several of the pa- tients above alluded to. Indeed, I do not think there is one medical man of reputation in or about Montpellier or Toulouse, that cannot speak from his own experience as to the good effects of these baths. Their salu- tary quality as a general deobstruent is not less esteemed, and many, very many cases are added every year to the long list of cures of obstructed lymphatic and sanguiferous fi- bres in the tissues of various organs.