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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    conceived his blindness had been occasioned by a disordered state of the alimentary canal, and was the effect of some distant disturbance in the system, affecting the nervous and sensorial power, with a high degree of functional de- rangement. * To these Cases in which permanent benefit has been obtained, I might add many others of perfect and lasting recovery, from Habitual Asthma, Gout, Gravel, Diseases of the Skin and of the Joints, Dropsy, Female Obstructions, Loss of Voice, Incipient Phthisis, &c. These I may hereafter publish, but already, sufficient has been shewn to prove the successful results of my plan of treatment, which is directed to the removal of the causes of disease, and not to the mere palliation of their effects. That I might not give offence to any one, I have here omitted the address of those persons from whom I have received communications, as well as those patients whose cases I have detailed, reserving to myself the right of silencing, scepticism BY REFERENCE TO THE PARTIES, IGNORANCE BY DEMONSTRATION, AND AFFECTED INCRE- DULITY BY PRACTICAL RESULTS.