The Tallerman treatment by the local application of super-heated dry air : abstract of papers by medical men, reports from hospitals, and clinical demonstrations.

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1898
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    INTRODUCTION. 50, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London, W. October i\,th, 1898. In placing these abstracts before the Medical Profession, I beg to acknow- ledge the obligation I am under for the frank and unprejudiced expression of opinion upon the method of treatment associated with my name. This, together with its reception in France and Germany and subsequent adoption by the Government of the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Imperial Medical Clinic of the University of Breslau, embodies the recognition of its merits by so large a number of eminent men as to fully confirm the title of the Tallerman Treatment to rank as a new remedy of the first importance, one which must have a far reaching effect and revolutionize the treatment of large classes of hitherto intractable and incurable diseases. On that account it more than ever remains both my desire and ambition to promote its general use amongst the members of the Medical Profession, and I would gladly continue to use m}' influence with the proprietors to limit its employment to them, if a wish to that effect be practically manifested. It has already been so limited (See Lancet, May 7th, 1898) for the past five years, but not witliout considerable loss and sacrifice. The contents hereof present a summary of the clinical and scientific investigations to which this new departure in therapeutics has been subjected, and to the results obtained therefrom is due that high reputation for efficiency audabsolute safety it now enjoys. The evidence, derived as it is from sources of such an authoritative and representative a character, proves to a demonstration that patients can now be spared the suffering and expense of long journeys in search of relief and that they may be treated in their own homes, under the care of their own medical men, with a success unattainable by drug, electric, hydro-thermal or other remedies, whether used singly or in com- bination* in all such cases as :—Rheumatoid Arthritis, all forms of Gout and Rheumatism, whether Acute, Sub-acute, Chronic or Gonorrhoea], in Stiff and Painful Joints, Flat-foot, Sprain, Sciatica, Lumbago, Neuralgia, Neuritis, Writer's Cramp, Local Paralysis, Anaemia, Eczema, Chronic Ulcer and Bronchitis, Lead Poisoning, Uupuytren's Contraction, and for the relief of pain in certain uterine cases and in the breaking down of adhesions. The therapeutic effects of the treatment—of which not the least important are:— The immediate relief of pain and congestion. The strengthening of the heart's action. The elimination of morbid and acid products, and The supply of nutrition to the whole system, indicate its use in the practices of all medical men, and in the belief that it cannot fail to be generally adopted ; arrangements are being made to supply the apparatus at a cost and on terms 0/ ■payme7it which will bring it within the reach of every Tnember of the profession. Attention is called to the improvements in the apparatus which have improvements. not only extended its sphere of usefulness but by rendering it available for i''^'^°- the internal as well as external appHcation of dry air heated to any desired temperature, a PERFECT AND complete system OF superheated dry- air TREATMENT IS PRESENTED. * See Report by Professor Landouzy, page 14. and others.