Memoirs and reports, on the efficacy of sulphurous fumigation in the treatment of diseases of the skin, joints, and glandular system, chronic rheumatism, gout, paralytic affections, &c. &c. / From the French (published by order of that Government,) of J.C. Gales ... ; by Rees Price.

  • Galés, J. C. (Jean Chrysanthe), 1783-1854.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Memoirs and reports, on the efficacy of sulphurous fumigation in the treatment of diseases of the skin, joints, and glandular system, chronic rheumatism, gout, paralytic affections, &c. &c. / From the French (published by order of that Government,) of J.C. Gales ... ; by Rees Price. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has fully answered the high opinion 1 had been led to entertain of it. In the case of a boy about seven years of age, who had from his infancy experienced a total loss of motion of the right arm, it succeed- ed in establishing its use, arid the limb soon be- came firm and healthy. Various remedies had been previously unsuccessfully employed by several prac- titioners. Some had attributed the cause of this paralytic affection to the pressure of water on the brain, but as he was quite healthy in other re- spects, I conceived it must have originated, and so long continued, from the depressed state of some of tlie bones of the head, the result of a severe labour' I have also used it in several cases of cutaneous affection, rheumatism, &ic. and the result has answer- ed my full expectations. I find much precaution is necessary in some af- fections, and in peculiar constitutions, in the appli- cation of it, for if the heat be carried to too high a degree, a strong sulphurous acid gas will be pro- duced, which will occasion a troublesome irrita- tion of the skin. In introducing a knowledge of this method of practice in Britain, I conceive I am performing an acceptable task to the community.—A practice, which is not founded on the wdld theory of an in- dividual, or the delusion of an empiric : but, a.s an important discovery, substantiated in more than an ordinary degree by men of the first professional eminence in France, I dar^ not say in tlie world, lest I might offend some of my own countrymen. I'o the Medical profession, these Memoirs will ])rove interesting, not only as regards the success- ful method of treating these various diseases, but as a comparative Ess'ay on the state of the practice of medicine, between the two countries, and the me- thod of conducting the hospitals in the French ca- 1
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