Observations on the properties of the air-pump vapour-bath, in the cure of gout, rheumatism, palsy, etc. : with occasional remarks on the efficacy of galvanism, in disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels, with some new and remarkable cases / by M. La Beaume.

  • La Beaume, Michael.
Date:
1819
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    this important discovery, over the whole habitable globe. The discovery by Galvanic of a new principle in animal Electricity, which opens so wide a field for philosophic im- provement, and which promises in its prac- tical results to be as beneficial to mankind as the vaccine system ; we owe to the same cause which produced the latter. So far we are wholly indebted to Providence, for discoveries of vast importance to the world. These phenomena in nature, however, had a powerful tendency to awaken curiosity, to stimulate enquiry, and rouse to exertion. The philosophic of all countries, as if by a common impulse, started in the race of dis- covery, and hence maybe traced those amaz- ing improvements in electricity, which form the chief boast and pride of modern times. The great Franklin, for philosophical and moral purposes, first taught the world, by his discoveries in Electricity, to subject the thunder of heaven to the power of man. Since his time, a whole host of eminent