The general state of medical and chirurgical practice exhibited; shewing them to be inadequate, ineffectual, absurd, and ridiculous ... And more rational ... methods of cure, by means of diet, simple medicines, etc., recommended. To which are added a great number of cases and cures / [James Graham].

  • James Graham
Date:
1779
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Credit: The general state of medical and chirurgical practice exhibited; shewing them to be inadequate, ineffectual, absurd, and ridiculous ... And more rational ... methods of cure, by means of diet, simple medicines, etc., recommended. To which are added a great number of cases and cures / [James Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r Mr. -——, a Resident of Bath, had been for a confiJerabic. time troubled with a noife and hardnefs of hearing in one ear, and with a fcotbutic complaint which had alarmed him; not a little ; he ivas pleafed to confult me lad fpring and to go through a courfe of my JEtherial Medicines, Electricity, ike. fourteen times. He received a perfect cure of his deaf- nefs, and fuch great relief in the fcorbutic complaint, even in that fhert-time, that he has not enjoyed io good a date of health and fpirits for fevera 1 years, as he has done for feve- ral months pad; this he is willing to declare to any perfo-n that really means to become Dr. Graham’s patient. Bath, January io, 1778. Cafe and CURE of the Honourable Mrs. —— No. V.] A LADY, an inhabitant of Bath, of a delicate conditu* Tion, and extremely fufceptible of the evils that arife from the changeable, cold, and raw temperature of the Britilli climate; from a hidden and fevere cold contracted a mod violent Bilious Cholic, attended with excruciating pains. For eight months pad, the return of the diforder had been very frequent,' for every little cold brought on the com¬ plaint with confidcrable violence. About the middle of laft November, die was feifed with this Bilious Cholic, which continued fourten days, with condant and fevere pain, and frequent vomiting of bile, 8zc. of fo diarp and corrodve an acidity, as to abrade the fkin from her throat and mouth as it pafled in vomiting. At this period, the complaint dege¬ nerated into an.univerfal and confirmed Jaundice. Mag- nelia, and all kind of food, as well as medicine, paded off unchanged; and in diort lhe was in a date from which flie entertained no hopes of being relieved. Formerly, on a different occafion, I had the honour of being consulted by the lady, and my medicines and appli¬ cations had produced the happieft effects. On this critical and mod important oceadon die was therefore again pleafed to take my advice. I found her afflicted with great pain in the region of the liver—the white of her eyes was quite yellow: her face too, her neck and arms, of a dark yellow colour, and in a word, with every fymptom and appearance of a comfirmed jaundice. The fird day L faw her, about three in the afternoon, in the prefence of her Surgeon-Apothecary, a Gentleman of eminence and candour, I gave her a full dofe of an astheiial medicine impregnated with my eledtric duid, which in a few minutes removed the violent pain of her fide, &c.——and in three hours, an obdinate and painful obdrudtion of three weeks continuance. So fupremeLy fubtil, penetrat-
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