On galvanism, and its extraordinary efficacy in the cure of stomach, liver, nervous, and other disorders of long continuance, after the failure of mercurial and other remedies : illustrated by new, interesting, and important facts and cases / by M. La Beaume.

  • La Beaume, Michael.
Date:
1842
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Credit: On galvanism, and its extraordinary efficacy in the cure of stomach, liver, nervous, and other disorders of long continuance, after the failure of mercurial and other remedies : illustrated by new, interesting, and important facts and cases / by M. La Beaume. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    We esteem it a most fortunate event that Mr, La B. whose ahUities and assiduity eminently qualify him for the imdertak- ing, should have directed his attention to this important branch of the healing art.”—Gazette of Health, June, 1820. “ Mr. La Beaume, medical galvanist, has lately published a selection of cases of indigestion from disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels, and other complaints, as asthma, gout, bhndness, &c. &c. which were cured by Galvanism, imder his superintendence.. Many of the patients, whose cases Mr. La B. has noticed, were recommended by physicians and surgeons of the first eminence. “ Galvanism and Electricity are unquestionably not only most VEduable auxiharies to medicine in a great variety of diseases, but in many deep-seated cases through which the fluid may be passed, it is the principal or leading remedy.”— Gazette of Health, Feb. 1828. Dr. Favre Palaprat, an eminent physician at Paris, Mem- ber of the AJicient Academy of Physic, Director-General of the Medico-Philanthropic Society, and of the Royal Society of Science, &c. &c. has lately puhhshed a translation of M, La Beaume’s works on the efficacy of Galvanism and Electricity in cases of indigestion, inactivity of the liver and intestinal canal, and on various chronic affections. To the translation the doctor has added many cases in which Galvanism, &c., proved beneficial vmder his own superintendence. From the high estimation in which the doctor is held as a physician, and as a man of general scientific attainments, by his bretliren, not only in Paris, hut throughout the whole continent, M. La Beaume’s works will obtain a very extensive circulation in Europe. We find they have also been reprinted in America.” —Gazette of Health, March 1828. “ The character of M. La Beaume, as a practitioner of long