On the use of the moxa, as a therapeutic agent / by Baron D.J. Larrey ; translated from the French, with notes, and an introduction containing a history of the substance, by Robley Dunglison.

  • Dominique Jean Larrey
Date:
1822
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    been little attended to. To supply, in some degree, this deficiency, by com- bining theoretical views with practical results, is the object of the present at- tempt. Ten years have now elapsed since the author's attention was directed to the dis- orders which form the subject of the following work, by two cases of paralytic affection in which he was led to adopt the particular method of treatment recom- mended, in consequence of the ordinary methods of cure proving ineffectual. The principles upon which the treatment was conducted, appeared to him to be new, or at all events not to have been acted upon by medical practitioners. A conviction of its utility subsequently, founded on the benefi- cial result of cases of a similar description, has induced him to lay them before the public, more particularly as he has ob-
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