An account of the new and successful treatment of indigestion, bilious and nervous complaints, deafness, blindness, etc / by M. La Beaume ... with cases to prove the medical efficacy of his portable sudatory or warm-air bath.

  • La Beaume, Michael.
Date:
1821
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Credit: An account of the new and successful treatment of indigestion, bilious and nervous complaints, deafness, blindness, etc / by M. La Beaume ... with cases to prove the medical efficacy of his portable sudatory or warm-air bath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    producing any beneficial efleet. The chronic form of the disease, with little intermission, continued to harrass him, and from which he suffered great torture, especially at night. This patient also suffered from a disordered state of the digestive organs. He commenced a course of Galvanism on the 29th of May, 1818, from which he soon derived greater benefit, than he had done under the treatment of two eminent physicians, the first of whom prescribed calomel, and the other the blue pill. After the recovery of his general health, I tried electricity ; but it produced no permanent effect. I then urged him to submit to the application of the Air-pump Vapour-bath, of which he entertained a strong, but silly dread. This remedy completely produced the desired effects, relief from pain and the removal of the contraction. in three applications of the Bath, these important ends were answered—he afterwards rapidly recovered his strength, and was able to use that arm, from which he had suffered so much, as well as he ever did in his life. An Officer of high rank in the Army, had an attack of apoplexy about four years ago, during his residence in one of the worst climates of India. His system had been roused to the O' greatest degree of excitement from high living,